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JOCULATORES UPSALIENSES: Early Music at Wik

Composer(s):
Artist(s) Joculatores Upsalienses, Ensemble
Period(s) Medieval • Renaissance (1400-1600)
Genre Classical Music
Category Chamber Music • Choral - Secular • Vocal
Catalogue BIS-CD-3
Label BIS
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
MP3
USD 9.99
 

 

   



JOCULATORES UPSALIENSES: Early Music at Wik
Review By DA66834,August 2009

You can hear that the musicians are playing the tunes with great joy. They are also skillful, playing in the right medieval tempos and often really swinging - for example in tune nr 2. In tune 5 an interesting thing is that the tempo gets faster right at the end. In tune 12 skillful instrumentalists play more swinging in the end of the tune.

Tune 6 is beautiful song with the interesting beat of 8/4, at least as I have found out.

The song is sometimes meant to resemble castrato singers - with a female loud voice - she sings quite good but sometimes it can be a little bit annoying. In tune 7 the singer sings about a man, his wife (in German: Weib) and her temporary lover - and when the male singer is singing what the wife is saying - he sings in falsetto - which can more....






 

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