Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18405 in Music
• Released on: 2006-03-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

nonexpert
I am not anyone to comment on the authenticity of this music. I have no idea how accurately it represents Medieval Mediterranean music. It sounds like it does: it sounds the way I might imagine the music of the period.

Regardless, the one thing I am qualified to evaluate is my pleasure listening to it. My favorite track is the first one, the Arab kyrie. Not quite like anything I've ever heard, but I would certainly go to any church where I could hear it.

This CD has helped to whet my appetite for more such music, and I suspect it would do so for anyone. If you are shopping here, I think you should strongly consider buying this one. I would, however, direct you to two other CDs as well (reminding you that I am by no means a knowledgeable person in this field): Sufi music such as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (though there are many other less famous examples, at least as good), and Arab Christian music, especially Marie Keyrouz. If there is a god, that is the music he hears in heaven. But excepting those two sources of superlatively uplifting music, this is among the best CDs I own. At its price, it's too good to miss.

Tantalizing
This is a terrific introduction to pre tempered scale music. Because of that, many listeners will perhaps find it disonant, or discordant. It is and it isn't. This is a very well performed collection of early music with vocals by very gifted singers. The rhythms are engaging and the CD has become a regular play in both my MP3 player and on my computers.

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Great CD!
I expected to like this one, so I wasn't surprised. The Kyrie is definitely catchy. This is a terrific cd.