{"id":23147,"date":"2014-12-29T20:41:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T00:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=23147"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:41:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T00:41:23","slug":"trio-mediaevals-aquilonis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=23147","title":{"rendered":"Trio Mediaeval&#8217;s Aquilonis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ecmrecords.com\/Images\/cover\/New_Series\/2400\/2416_a.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trio Mediaeval<\/p>\n<p>Aquilonis<\/p>\n<p>ECM Records 2416<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re enjoying the holidays abetted by <em>Aquilonis,\u00a0<\/em>the latest ECM recording by\u00a0vocal group\u00a0<strong>Trio Mediaeval. <\/strong>The disc contains several carols from 15th Century England and Scandinavian folksongs. Its varied program also encompasses 12th Century lauds from Italy contrasted by pieces from Iceland: excerpts of the <em>Office of St. Thorlak.<\/em>There is also\u00a0a substantial amount of contemporary fare, including imaginative miniatures written by members of the trio. There are \u00a0lushly beautiful offerings by <strong>Andrew Smith,<\/strong> a composer who has written several pieces for the group.\u00a0<em>Ama,\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Anders Jormin,\u00a0<\/strong>intersperses delightfully crunchy cluster chords with chanted solo lines.\u00a0<strong>William Brooks&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Vale Dulcis Amice\u00a0<\/em>closes the album with gentle, serenely eloquent chordal writing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:34px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=23147\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trio Mediaeval Aquilonis ECM Records 2416 &nbsp; We&#8217;re enjoying the holidays abetted by Aquilonis,\u00a0the latest ECM recording by\u00a0vocal group\u00a0Trio Mediaeval. The disc contains several carols from 15th Century England and Scandinavian folksongs. Its varied program also encompasses 12th Century lauds from Italy contrasted by pieces from Iceland: excerpts of the Office of St. Thorlak.There is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2962],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23148,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23147\/revisions\/23148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}