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Pre-Order the second CD from Vox:

Extreme Singing  

The La Rue Requiem and other Flemish Masterpieces of the Renaissance

 

(CD scheduled for release in late 2007/early 2008)

 

Special Pre-release offer (available only for a limited time):

 

2 CDs for $20 (plus $2.50 S&H)

 

or

 

1 CD for $16 (plus $2.50 S&H)

 

Vox makes history by becoming the first modern ensemble in the world  to record the Requiem by Pierre de la Rue, unaccompanied, and at its written pitch.  This work is set at such an extraordinarily low range that many scholars have called it "unperformable".  In addition to shattering this misconception, the recording will involve other examples of "extreme singing" from the Renaissance, include a work featuring the lowest note ever written in Renaissance music!  

Pre-order your CD now at a special price!  

(CD schedule for release in late 2007/early 2008)

 

Hear sound clips from the recording sessions!!!

 

La Rue(?), Absalon, fili mi

van Weerbeke, Stabat Mater

La Rue, Requiem (Kyrie)

La Rue, Plorer, Gemir, Crier

 

Program notes from Vox's concert performance of this repertoire

 

 

Critical acclaim for Vox's first CD, Josquin and the Lost Generation:

 

 The vitality of the early music movement is nowhere better demonstrated than by the emergence of Vox, an a cappella ensemble based in Ann Arbor, MI”

All Media Guide (www.allmusic.com)

 

“If we're ever to reach a point where the masterpieces of Renaissance music become as familiar to the general public as are the Michelangelo sculptures that people flock to see, it is groups like Vox that will make it so.  An auspicious debut.”

All Media Guide (www.allmusic.com)

 

“The real appeal of this recording is in the warmth and expressiveness of the singers, and in the group's creamy ensemble blend.”

Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association

 

“Richafort's six-voice Requiem, most likely composed for the death of Josquin, occupies a major part of the CD.  It is well worth the space:  Both the stately, solemn music and its exceptional realization justify the label 'unjustly neglected'.”

Ann Arbor News

 

"Throughout, the singing is pure and richly nuanced..."

Ann Arbor News