Les Troubadours Du Roi Badouin Missa Luba CD

A mass sung in pure Congolese style and native songs of the Congo sung by Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin. Featuring "Sanctus" from the original soundtrack of Lindsay Anderson's exraordinary film If... and more themes from Maverick Post-War Cinema. 'It was as though an H-bomb had gone off under the establishment'. Malcolm McDowell on the reaction to If... The centrepiece of this edition is the the Missa Luba, a version of the Latin mass bewitchingly performed by Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin. It includes the beautiful 'Sanctus' which was deployed by director Lindsay Anderson to magical effect in his extraordinary 1968 film, If... Coming at a time of youthful dissidence and revolt, If... was a surprise hit with'Sanctus' an integral part of the fabric of what has come to be regarded as one of the best, most important works of art in British film history. This edition presents the Missa Luba complete in a programme which also includes the delightful Christmas in the Congo album and a selection of both children's songs and songs from Luba folklore, (eight of which are released here in digital format for the first time); all performed joyfully by Father Guido Haazen's remarkable youth choir. Taking it's cue from both Sanctus and If... , the remainder of this edition surveys the use of unusual and classical music in post-war cinema by progressive film makers; among them Welles, Bergman, Bu?uel, Kubrick, Powell, Visconti; poets and mavericks for whom cinema transcended even art. Malcolm McDowell's choice of Sanctus for If... was inspired. The other-worldliness of the music seems the perfect metaphor for the fight for freedom that Lindsay Anderson suggested If... was mostly about. Among some other sublime and powerfully effective examples of where film and music have become inseparable are included in this set; Mahler's Fifth Symphony in Visconti's Death in Venice; Chopin and Bach establishing atmosphere for Ingmar Bergman in Cries and Whispers; Bach and Beethoven haunting Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock; Chopin for Jack Nicholson in Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces; Bach again, played by Glenn Gould, in George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse-Five; Paganini ("a wizard of a different sort of fiddle") for Orson Welles in F for Fake; and for Wim Wender' Fitzcarraldo, Enrico Caruso, recorded in 1907, singing from Puccini's La Boh?me.

1. Dibwe Diambula Kabanda (Marriage Song) 2. Lutuku ; a Bene Kanyoka (Emergence from Grief) 3. Ebu Ewale Kemai (Marriage Ballad) 4. Katunbu (Dance) 5. Seya Wa Mama Ndalamba (Marital Celebration) 6. Banaha (Soldiers Song) 7. Twai Tshinaminai (Work Song) 8. Kyrie 9. Gloria 10. Credo 11. Sanctus 12. Benedictus 13. Agnus Dei 14. Ave Maria 15. Mbali Kule 16. O Jesu Christe 17. Kamiole 18. Katende 19. Kilio 20. Kamuyambi 21. Daina 22. Siku Kuu (Holy Night) 23. Lullaby 24. Kimya 25. Abe Wanene 26. Mbambale 27. Makeva 28. Tambwe Dishinda 29. Lutuku Ina Mudinga 30. Oh Siekeni Wee Mama 31. Munafika 32. Emelina Ee 33. Siku Moja 34. Mwendele Baki Binda 35. Lelo Nguba 36. Kabundi 37. Wa Buta 38. Toccata in D minor, BWV 565 - Bach (Helmut Walcha) 39. Prelude for Piano, Op. 28, No. 24 in D minor (The Storm) - Chopin (Claudio Arrau) 40. Prelude - Allan Grey 41. Etude #1 in a Flat, Op. 25/1, CT 26, "Aeolian Harp" - Chopin (Claudio Arrau) 42. Consolation No. 1 - Liszt (Sergio Fiorentino) 43. Hey Ho! the Wind and the Rain (John Heddle Nash) 44. Tristan and Isolde: Prelude - Wagner (Furtw?ngler) 45. Venus, the Bringer of Peace - Holst (Von Karajan) 46. L'arl?sienne, Suite No.1 - Pr?lude - Bizet (De Burgos) 47. L'arl?sienne, Suite No.12 - Farandole - Bizet (De Burgos) 48. Academic Festival Overture Op.80 - Brahms (Eduard Van Beinum) 49. Romeo ; Juliet - Fantasy Overture After Shakespeare (Section) - Tchaikovsky (Barbirolli) 50. Sanctus (From Missa Luba An African 51. Mass) (Mono) - Les Troubadours Du Roi 52. Baudouin 53. Toccata, 5th Organ Symphony Opus 42 No 1 - Widor (Dupre) 54. Siegfried's Funeral March from G÷tterd?mmerung (Twilight of the Gods) - Wagner - (Furtwangler) 55. Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner (Furtwangler) 56. Prelude in E minor, Op 28, No. 4 - Chopin (Claudio Arrau) 57. Adagietto from Symphony 5 - Mahler (Bruno Walter) 58. An Der Sch÷nen, Blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube), Op. 314 - Johann Strauss II (Krauss) 59. Concerto No. 5 in F minor for Piano and Orchestra - Largo - Bach (Glenn Gould) 60. Nuages - Claude Debussy (Manuel Rosenthal) 61. Mazurka in a Minor, Op.17/4 - Chopin (Rubinstein) 62. Suite No. 5 for Solo Cello in C minor (4th Movement) Sarabande - J. S. Bach (Fournier) 63. Requiem in D minor (K.626) - Mozart (Bruno Walter) 64. Caprice No24 in a Minor - Nicolo Paganini (Michael Rabin) 65. Five Pieces for Orchestra Op. 10 - Anton Webern (Robert Craft) 66. Carnaval, Opus 9, Movement Number 12 - Schumann (Solomon) 67. Prelude No.1 in C Major BWV 846 (WTC I) - J. S. Bach (Feinberg) 68. Piano Concerto No. 5 in E Flat "Emperor", Op. 73 Adagio Un Poco Mosso - Beethoven (Bernstein) 69. Pavane of Sleeping Beauty from Ma Mere L'oye - Maurice Ravel (Ansermet) 70. Concertino for Piano ; Orchestra - Lent - Jean Fran?aix (Fricsay) 71. Sicilienne from Pelleas Et Melisande, Op. 78 - Gabriel Faure (Ansermet) 72. La Boh?me: O Mim?, Tu Pi? Non Torni (Recorded 1907) - Enrico Caruso (Puccini) 73. Agon - Ballet for Twelve Dancers: Pas de Quatre - Stravinsky 74. Nauges Gris - Franz Liszt (Sergio Fiorentino)