Alfred Desenclos (composer) - Have you had any experience with his music?
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Hello friends.
I was recently introduced to Desenclos' music via his Salve Regina. Have you had any experience with his music? He is not a name that you hear every day in choral music...
Balanced Voices - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqAJC8BS8Ek
Soprano Predominant - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiMP3GDVOY4
Soprano Muted - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so3ihPqmO28
Soprano Part Left - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6xsS0CmAz4
Alto Predominant - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaBeZWf6tc8
Alto Muted - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXubVOxb1FY
Alto Part Left - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkK_5dpD1qI
Tenor Predominant - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgNFAbj_sCo
Tenor Muted - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvagXVve0PU
Tenor Part Left - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzJ8pOHOdpE
Bass Predominant - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSLqmsitSWA
Bass Muted - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNL9zEAA_wk
Bass Part Left - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp9vqIkzMYU
Matt Curtis
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Wow... wow... wow!
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That is amazing.
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Alfred Desenclos (7 February 1912 – 31 March 1971), French composer.
Sacred works (all published by Editions Durand):
Messe de requiem
Nos autem (SSATBB a cappella)
Salve Regina (SATB chorus)
Additions:
Apparently he also composed a Pater Noster and one or two O salutaris settings.
His Requiem, composed in 1963 and published in 1967 by Durand was apparently plagiarized, note-for-note, by a composer (Tristan Foison) living in Atlanta and given an "American premiere" in 1999 by the Capital Hill Chorale. The fakery was discovered by someone at that concert who had sung the same piece a year earlier with the Fairfax Choral Society in Vienna, Virginia. -
Wow, what a spectacular career suicide! I just did a Web search on Foison, and virtually everything leads back to Desenclos.
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Lovely! You know, if I would have listened to it blindfolded, I would have said it was a Kevin Allen piece. Quite stunning.
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I read some of Desenclos' pieces (the Salve Regina and maybe one of the O salutaris settings, I think) when I was researching my dissertation, and thought it beautiful music, but sort of stuck it away and forgot about him because he hadn't written anything for women's choirs (the eventual subject of my dissertation, long story). His pieces ought to be brought out of oblivion, like so much other wonderful sacred music.
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uniquely stupendous writing!
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