Exaudi - James Weeks: Mala Punica (2017) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Walled Garden I-Mala Punica: Quae Est Ista
02. Mala Punica: Ego Flos Campi
03. Mala Punica: Ficus Protulit
04. Mala Punica: Hortus Conclusus-Walled Garden II-Mala Punica: Veni in Hortum Meum
05. Mala Punica: Dilectus Meus
06. Mala Punica: Descendi
07. Mala Punica: Donec Aspiret Dies-Walled Garden III


Since its debut in 2002, EXAUDI has emerged as one of Britain’s leading contemporary music ensembles. EXAUDI is based in London. The ensemble typically works as a consort rather than a choir. EXAUDI’s special affinities are High Renaissance, early Baroque and especially contemporary music, at home equally with maximal complexity, microtonality and experimental aesthetics.

Mala Punica (pomegranate) is an extraordinary album, particularly because the leader and composer James Weeks has written the settings of the poems „Song of Songs“ especially for the eight voices of EXAUDI which he founded together with the soprano Juliet Fraser. The erotic poems from the Tanach (Old Testament) fascinate through the impressive aesthetic power of EXAUDI. This song circle is framed by the instrumental composition „Walled Garden“. „Mala Punica“ and „Walled Garden“ are totally merged into one another and form an artistic unity.

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