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Ancient and Modern

~ Anne Dudley
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Product details

  • Audio CD (21 Sep 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Echo
  • ASIN: B00001IVKK
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 148,267 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Canticles of the Sun and Moon
2. Veni Sancte Spiritus
3. From Darkness to Light
4. Veni Emmanuel
5. Tallis' Canon
6. Holly and the Ivy
7. Testimony of John
8. Canzonetta
9. Coventry Carol
10. Prelude/Three Chorales in Common Time
11. Three Strings
12. Eight Woodwind
13. Sixteen Voices

On this CD:
  1. Canticles of the Sun and Moon
    Composed by Anne Dudley
    Performed by Choir
    Conducted by Anne Dudley

  2. Veni Sancte Spiritus
    Composed by Anne Dudley
    Performed by Choir
    Conducted by Anne Dudley

  3. From Darkness to Light
    Composed by Anne Dudley
    Conducted by Anne Dudley

  4. Veni Emmanuel
    Composed by Anne Dudley
    Performed by Choir
    Conducted by Anne Dudley

  5. Tallis' Canon
    Composed by Anne Dudley
    Performed by Choir
    Conducted by Anne Dudley

  6. (The) Holly and The Ivy
    Composed by Anne Dudley
    Conducted by Anne Dudley

  7. (The) Testimony of John
    Composed by Anne Dudley
    Performed by Ensemble
    with Catherine Bott
    Conducted by Anne Dudley

  8. Canzonetta
    Composed by Anne Dudley
    Performed by Ensemble

  9. Coventry Carol
    Composed by Anne Dudley
    Performed by Choir
    Conducted by Anne Dudley

  10. Das Wohltemperierte Klavier
    Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performed by Ensemble
    Conducted by Anne Dudley

  11. (3) Chorales in Common Time
    Composed by Anne Dudley
    Performed by Choir
    with Gavin Wright, James McLeod, Anthony Pleeth
    Conducted by Anne Dudley


Product Description

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars English choral music meets Philip Glass, 19 Aug 2000
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This review is from: Ancient and Modern (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.
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3.0 out of 5 stars a 'classical' twist, 23 Dec 2008
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.
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