Cut Circle/ Rodin - Messes AnonymesWhat makes a piece of music difficult? This album introduces a pair of riveting, technically ambitious, historically important, and never before recorded polyphonic masses of the fifteenth century, performed by an ensemble that has developed a new approach designed to honor the music's variety and unflagging intensity. Both works stand out for their notational complexity. They are also exceptional for the skill they demand of the performers: we find

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Friedrich Nietzsche knew that a child is hidden in each of us- a child who wants to play

Chip is a man who has seen the worst life has to offer

he played in bands

singing Jackson 5 covers

a much older hymn by Rabanus Maurus

"A new beginning is a gift"

We can follow an awakening of youth in suburbia attempting to learn what is right

he was named a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Music in London in 1997

he now requires what is perhaps an even higher measure of expressive shared experiencing and solo messaging

and through this they are distinguished to a greater or lesser extent by a national tonal language

While it went largely unnoticed in the UK