Tapestry, the Boston-based women's trio, is joined by five other singers and instrumentalists in the album of music devoted to women's stories. The selections range from Medieval motets to European and American folk song to Romantic choral music to newly composed pieces. Most of the pieces have an early music/folk-like simplicity and purity that give them an immediate, direct appeal. The performances are wonderfully appealing as well; the singing is impassioned and unaffected, and the instruments -- harp, vielle, fiddle, ...
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Tapestry, the Boston-based women's trio, is joined by five other singers and instrumentalists in the album of music devoted to women's stories. The selections range from Medieval motets to European and American folk song to Romantic choral music to newly composed pieces. Most of the pieces have an early music/folk-like simplicity and purity that give them an immediate, direct appeal. The performances are wonderfully appealing as well; the singing is impassioned and unaffected, and the instruments -- harp, vielle, fiddle, and cello -- provide a colorful, atmospheric accompaniment. Singers Laurie Monahan, Cristi Catt, and Daniela Tosic, joined on several tracks by Carolann Buff, Diana Brewer (and bass Darrick Yee in the excerpts from Rachmaninov's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom) sing with clear, straight tone and flawless intonation, and their voices are colorfully varied. The programming of complementary repertoire is inspired -- the contemporary pieces by Marcos Krieger, Ivan Moody, Joan Szymko,...
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