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Music CD - The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace
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Music CD: The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace
List Price: $16.98
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Manufacturer: EMI Classics
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Tracks:
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1. The Armed Man
2. The Call To Prayers
3. Kyrie
4. Save me From Bloody Men
5. Sanctus
6. Hymn Before Action
7. Charge!
8. Angry Flames
9. Torches
10. Agnus Dei
11. Now The Guns Have Stopped
12. Benedictus
13. Better Is Peace
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724381101520
Label: EMI Classics
Manufacturer: EMI Classics
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: EMI Classics
Release Date: 2005-05-10
Studio: EMI Classics
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Powerful - Haunting
Comment: Beautifully performed. This music is powerful, thought provoking, haunting, and finally hopeful. The CD has helped me tremendously in learning this piece. The group with which I sing is performing it soon. I hope we do it justice.
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Summary: A mass that deserves a wide audience
Comment: One could be forgiven for thinking this was the start of Steve Reich's
"trains" music at the beginning. Gradually the mass evolves with a variety of styles, tones and melodies. The Agnus Dei is especially haunting and beautifully written.
Its a great gift for someone who likes choral music.
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Summary: A Modern Mass-ter
Comment: This performance of Karl Jenkins "Mass for Peace" is a moving performance of a work and a composer who ought to be better known. The Sanctus alone is worth the full price of the CD.
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Summary: A pleasant suprise
Comment: Although I had heard only the "Kyrie" from this music composition, I was very surprised to find the rest of the work very interesting and charming to my ears, which is one the assets I look for when I listen to new musical pieces. It is a modern piece but with a touch of classical harmony to the chorals. Loved it.
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Summary: The Armed Man: A Mass for PeaceI
Comment: I bought this product,"The Armed Man:A Mass for Peace", because I hate war, particularly the Iraq War which we are now embroiled in. While I understand that war is an ever present foe, not enough is done to retard its existence. I thought buying this CD would help me malign my fears of war's inevitable outcome and give me hope that those in power seek alternatives. The "Kyrie" drew me to this CD. It is a wonderfully spiritual piece of music. The whole CD, "The Armed Man:A Mass for Peace", is sung and performed in the glory of the major religions: Islam, Jewish, Christian. It transcends the Christian mass, in that, it strives with a prayer for peace. This is a very moving piece of music. Thank you.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Karl Jenkins's The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace is a departure from his Adiemus recordings into the more conventional territory of large-scale choral and orchestral writing, though his customary passion for mixing languages remains in full force with texts in English, Latin, and French. Jenkins has said that The Armed Man was inspired by the "L'Homme armé" masses that were popular in the 16th century, and he makes this debt clear with passages written in a neat pastiche of Palestrina-style renaissance polyphony. There are also echoes of earlier and later styles, including plainchant, medieval ballads, John Barry-style horn writing (think Goldfinger), and even a direct quote from Rigoletto (the choir imitates wind sounds at one point as in Act 3 of the Verdi opera). The smorgasbord manages to hold together, probably because Jenkins's obvious sincerity shines through every note. The London Philharmonic Orchestra plays beautifully, and treble Tristan Hambleton performs his solo with ethereal clarity. The National Youth Choir sings with vigor and accuracy, even if the young sopranos sound a little thin at the top of their range. If you liked the soundtrack to The Mission, this should press all the right buttons. --Warwick Thompson
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