5.0 out of 5 stars
First Rate Piece of Musical Arcana. Buy It., July 27 2006
By B. Marold "Bruce W. Marold" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lucente Stella Moyen-Age-Xxe (Audio CD)
'Lucenta Stella', performances by Pierre Hamon on recorders, with accompaniment, is substantially different than what one would think on first look at the cover art. You have to read the subtitling carefully to see that the CD includes both old music and modern works.
I have always been especially fond of the recorder, as it is the one antique instrument I can actually play based on my experience with a clarinet, and this sampling really puts the icing on my cake.
The overwhelming impression one gets from the collected works is that the early music was actually more complicated than modern, in that many modern pieces eschew common patterns of composition and go for very primitive sounds. One piece even sounds as if it were done on an Australian Diggerido. A quick check of the notes gives us no aboriginal musicians, so Monsieur Hamon and company must be doing a great job of simulating that great bamboo flute.
A real treat.