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The Plain Dealer, CD Review >>
The Psalms of David inspired Christian, Jewish and Muslim composers in 16th- and 17th-century Europe. Jan P. Sweelinck set the texts in exquisite Dutch polyphony for use in Protestant services. Salamone Rossi Hebreo wrote contrapuntal psalms for a Venetian synagogue. Ali Ufki (Wojciech Bobowski), a Polish church musician who converted to Islam, transformed melodies from the Genevan Psalter into the Turkish modal system, and he translated the words into Ottoman.
The six men of the King’s Singers perform the Christian and Jewish music with flowing line and pure English tone. The seven musicians of Sarband sound exotic by comparison as they play traditional Persian and Arabic instruments and produce a more strident vocal sound. Though the texts are sometimes identical, the musical styles are poles apart.
- Wilma Salisbury 12/01/05 >> go there
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