Alex Ross recently published a fantastic looking iTunes playlist on his blog; (mostly) 20th century religious music, called Illuminations Of The Beyond. I fancied me some of that and clicked on it, but found that it was only accessible via the US store. So I hunted and searched and found all the tracks in the UK store, downloaded them, made a playlist and have had a brilliant afternoon listening to them.
And since I'd done all that I thought I might as well share via the UK store in case anyone else wanted to listen. So here it is. I couldn't find the Honegger and I can't guarantee I've got the right performances (or even the right pieces) for everything else (I don't really know very much about 20th century religious music) but it's still a lovely listen.
I could not decide which Arvo Pärt piece to pick. The most interesting classical composer in my eyes uhm.. ears.
I probably would have put the Kyrie from Ligety's Requiem on that list, too. But mostly because I don't know half of the other tracks and, well, you will recognize the piece when you hear it.
Posted by: Jonathan | September 22, 2007 at 07:01 PM