Surprised by Beauty: Minimalism in Choral Music (2007)

Three of the composers represented on this collection, Surprised by Beauty: Minimalism in Choral Music, Gavin Bryars, Arvo Pärt, and William Duckworth, have been associated with minimalism or post-minimalism, but only the selections from Duckworth's Southern Harmony actually sound minimalist, as the term is commonly understood. The program notes make clear that the performers here have applied a different, broader definition to the word, one that has to do with the use of minimal musical materials, and by that standard, the ... Read More

Three of the composers represented on this collection, Surprised by Beauty: Minimalism in Choral Music, Gavin Bryars, Arvo Pärt, and William Duckworth, have been associated with minimalism or post-minimalism, but only the selections from Duckworth's Southern Harmony actually sound minimalist, as the term is commonly understood. The program notes make clear that the performers here have applied a different, broader definition to the word, one that has to do with the use of minimal musical materials, and by that standard, the works Pärt and Bryars easily qualify. Ruth Lomon's "Transport," a movement from her oratorio Testimony of Witnesses, doesn't sound minimalist by any definition, but it's an affecting piece that uses the writings of Holocaust survivors to paint a devastating picture of the victims' suffering. Bryars' a cappella And so ended Kant's traveling in this world uses a prose account of an incident at the end of the philosopher's life as reported by one of his contemporaries. The spare and... Read Less

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