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Review title: monteverdi must be...
Product review: Monteverdi must be turning over in his grave when he hears the "choir" which has assumed his name butcher the Latin in this setting of the mass!In reviewing this on the Borders website I noted that the opening of the work is presented thus: KEARRRREEEEEAYYYYY AYYLAYYEEEEESAWN. Not even the most refined Georgia belle could add so many vowels and diphthongs!The apparent attempt by the director to present most movements as a dance plays to the popular notion that worship music should be "lively" or "joyful." This is done without regard to the ideas being expressed. This up-tempo approach comes home to roost in the movement "cum sancto spiritu" when a lively tempo seems appropriate. The musicians cannot manage a faster tempo as is clearly shown in the phrase "in gloria Dei patris" where the double-pulsed strings cannot keep up with the choir.
