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Dream of the Rood by Casken / Hilliard Ensemble / Rundell (CD, 2019)

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelNmcq, NMC Records

UPC5023363024525

eBay Product ID (ePID)13046057203

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2019

GenreClassical Artists

ArtistCasken / Hilliard Ensemble / Rundell

Release TitleDream of the Rood

Dimensions

Item Height0.41 in

Item Weight0.19 lb

Item Length5.62 in

Item Width4.96 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

NotesCasken's work is often inspired by literature and legend, landscape and painting and particularly by the Northumberland countryside where he lives. His compositions have won a Gramophone award, the First Britten Award for Composition, the Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize, a British Composer Award for Vocal Music, as well as shortlistings for both RPS and British Composer Awards. The Dream of the Rood sets texts chosen by the composer from the Anglo-Saxon poem of the same name which dramatically describes the story of the crucifixion in a highly original portrayal of Christ's death coupled with Casken's own arrangement of Perotin's Viderunt omnes, the earliest surviving vocal work of plainsong in four parts. In both arrangements, Casken introduces a large instrumental ensemble and masterfully enhances the medieval texts and music of the originals within a highly effective contemporary context. Alongside these are three pieces from the rare Conductus repertoire of the 12th/13th centuries which have been core to The Hilliard Ensemble's performing library. This release marks the significant contribution to British music of one of it's most notable vocal ensembles and one of it's richest of composing voices, in work that is equally moving and dramatic.