M. Lauridsen - Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna, etc. / Salamunovich, Los Angeles Master Chorale
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Free Music Review: A light on Lauridsen
Hit: 5 Stars
A truly magnificent CD! If you wish to hear the definitive recordings on Lauridsen's music, listen to this CD. This is the only recording of O Magnum Mysterium that I have heard that I feel has a grasp on the phrasing within the song. The Lux Aeterna is also excellently written and performed. Enjoy!Free Music Review: Not bad
Hit: 3 Stars
I picked this cd up because it looked interesting and the composer was from Eastern Washington. [Well if you were raised in Eastern Washington you'd understand that is reason enough]. Reading the reviews I expected O Magnum Mysterium to be excellent. In fact, Ave Maria is the piece I find most interesting, because at points it shares a common aesthetic with Biebl's Ave Maria. Beyond that I found the cd to be interesting music that fades quickly into the background - lush, soothing, and forgetable.Lauridsen is good at taking advantage of the best of choral sounds ... the music simply lacks originality.
Free Music Review: The Most Sublime Music You Will Ever Hear
Hit: 5 Stars
I heard selections from this album while listening to the radio on my birthday, and absolutely fell in love with it. Unfortunately we were in the car at the time, and I could not write down any information. Months later my husband found it here on Amazon and gave it to me as an anniversary present. I can't express how much it meant to me, especially since the selections I heard were from "Les Chansons de Roses." We had used roses as the theme for our wedding, and now this sublime, angelic music will always remind me of the love my husband and I share. This is a perfect CD to share with someone you love.Free Music Review: Finding mystery
Hit: 5 Stars
So much of what we read, hear, tune in, pass by seems to be sighing an elegy for that perfect place of mind that for lack of better term we call MYSTERY. Well, search no further, fellow frayed souls. This work "Lux Aeterna" may be deemed simplistic, minimalistist fluff by some cold hearted critics, but I would urge those listeners yearning to seek contemplation to put this little treasure of a disc on your machine and release to a spiritual flight. This is a beautifully performed and recorded choral masterwork of the 20th Century. If it is popular (as is Gorecki's Symphony No. 3) then I think the hope for the future is more positive than the outside signals would indicate.Free Music Review: Repetition, dear Morten, is the key to poetry - not melody!
Hit: 3 Stars
I would love to say that this is the "most uplifting...harmonious...blah, blah, blah..."that I have ever heard. But sadly, it is not. At the ACDA convention this year at Loyola Marymount U, I was granted the extreme privilege of performing in the same concert session as the LAMC, at which Lauridsen himself was present (I was singing with the Thomas Downey Knightengales), and truthfully, I was not impressed by the barrage of Lauridsen pieces. I had previously heard the "Dirait-on" and "O Magnum," and while I love those pieces - I love them separately. Lauridsen's work really does meld into itself after a while. The melodies, while soothing, are also coma-inducing. The repetition of melodic passages gets very monotonous - especially after one has just gone through a rigorous performance. This is not to say that Lauridsen is a bad composer - I like his work, if only in small doses!