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Pitts - Alpha and Omega

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA67668

Barcode: 0034571176680

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 28th January 2008

Works

Pitts
The Peace of Jerusalem (2007)

Pitts
Sanctus and Benedictus (1993)

Pitts
A Thousand Years (1999)

Pitts
My Dove (1997)

Pitts
The ‘I Am’ Sayings of Jesus (1996–2007)

Artists

Tonus Peregrinus

Conductor

Antony Pitts

Works

Pitts
The Peace of Jerusalem (2007)

Pitts
Sanctus and Benedictus (1993)

Pitts
A Thousand Years (1999)

Pitts
My Dove (1997)

Pitts
The ‘I Am’ Sayings of Jesus (1996–2007)

Artists

Tonus Peregrinus

Conductor

Antony Pitts

About

There are few better examples of a composer’s style developing concurrently with the emergence of a vocal group than in the a cappella vocal music of Antony Pitts. The Tonus Peregrinus octet exists to perform ancient and modern works interspersed with music written by its director. The two-way influence between consort and composer is palpable.

The resulting compositions are as much theological statements as stand-alone pieces of music and as such they bear comparison with some of the monuments of, for instance, the music of the English Reformation. Specific musical germs such as false relations and the use of carefully controlled dissonances to create suspensions provide obvious aural connections with the music of the sixteenth century. But there are other musical devices such as medieval hocket, psalmodic chanting, jazz-infused rhythmic cells, and close-harmony effects which combine to create a simultaneously antiquated yet modern musical style.

Building on the success of their first Hyperion release 'Seven Letters', this disc contains contains further dazzling, ecstatic, arresting, thought-provoking works, sung with limpid beauty by Tonus Peregrinus.