DUO SERAPHIM: Lute songs & solos for Advent and Christmastide

Duo Seraphim: Lute songs and solos for Advent and Christmastide

Released in 2008, this very personal selection of music for Advent and Christmastide represents many traditions ranging from the 12th to the 18th centuries. Featuring our own arrangements for lute and voice of many familiar and traditional English, Irish, French, and German carols, juxtaposed with a few favorite Latin motets, Scots tunes, and one Italian lauda set to a very special poem by Petrarch. Recorded in the aftermath of a very difficult time, Duo Seraphim is dedicated with gratitude to our many friends and supporters in the hope that it may brighten the spirit of the season for years to come.

Richard Banks at Christmascdreviews.com says:
"...As a jaded and sated holiday listener, I am drawn to anything lacking in kitsch, and there is nothing I've heard this season further from the manufactured art of American Christmas than Duo Seraphim. Surely, this is listening to holiday music without listening to "holiday music"...There are a lot of ways to get at the holiday spirit; Duo Seraphim has chosen the road less traveled, putting together a unique and substantial collection of latinesque works, adorned only with voice and lute."

Release date: October 2008 19 songs and lute solos, c. 53 minutes $15.00 + 1st class international shipping

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