- Audio CD (26 Feb 2001)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Echo
- ASIN: B000024GS8
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 216,974 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Anne Dudley is an enigmatic figure. She's a founding member of the British dance group the Art of Noise, a noted film composer with an Academy Award for The Full Monty soundtrack, and she's a classically trained keyboardist. In recent months, Anne Dudley has released a new Art of Noise CD, The Seduction of Claude Debussy, that adds dance beats to the classical French composer's melodies, and she has a solo album, Ancient & Modern, on which she rearranges carols, hymns, and fugues for orchestra.
Ancient & Modern lives up to its title. She takes the Bach preludes "Coventry Carol" and Tallis's "Canon" and arranges them for orchestra and a choir called the Sixteen. Although these recordings should rightly be called adaptations and arrangements, Dudley takes writing credits for all, including venerable hymns like "Veni Emmanuel."
The album is at its best when Dudley shows her contemporary influences, as on "Canticles of the Sun and Moon." The song is based around the hymn "From All Who Dwell Beneath the Sky," but Dudley gives it a minimalist turn with cyclical marimba lines. She performs a similar fete with "Veni Emmanuel," building an unusual tension and dynamic explosiveness in this usually sedate hymn. --John Diliberto
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
When you listen to the opening notes of this album you can picture yourself inside King's College Cambridge, and then you notice the difference. Inspired by Anne Dudley's background with Art of Noise, traditionally pure choral sounds are infused with progressive rock bass lines and percussion. Christmas will never be the same once you have experienced the Holly and the Ivy, carried away by the arrangement's Glassian rhythms. However, I think the masterpiece of this album is her arrangement of the Bach chorale - if you are just sitting and listening for the first time without following the album cover you will be unaware that the chorale has started, so subtle is Ms Dudley's intro. Then familiar Bach continuo lines creep in before the choir enters with the chorale in all its glory. Definitely an album for the diverse collector.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Following Anne Dudley from her AON experiments/experience and with Jaz Colman, this is her first solo outing and is very classically based, including some standards. There are touches of her history involved across this disc, and repeated listening shows a depth to a number of tracks which IMHO really begin to show the direction her career would be taking on 'In a Different Light' with Anne Dudleys soundtrack work.
Format:Audio CD
Ever noticed the number of rock stars who end up going classical? Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello for starters followed by Jaz Coleman (Killing Joke),Michael Nyman (the Flying Lizards,Richie Blackmore-Deep Purple was the first to record with a symphony ork and Blackmore went mediaeval.Anne Dudley does as well with this album which sounds like it could have been made with the intention of conjuring up Victorian England and the sound of the classic Christmas song.
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