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Chromatic Renaissance album review – Exaudi negotiate these writhing strains with exemplary precision

by musicsoundwizard@gmail.com   ·  8 months ago  

‘Chromaticism is a rare and exotic bloom in Western tune,” writes Exaudi’s director James Weeks in his wonderfully complete essay in his crew’s disc of gradual 16th-century choral works. “It flowers handiest when conditions allow: when a harmonic conception exists that might perhaps perhaps accommodate it, and extra importantly when composers absorb the desire to ...