{"id":8123,"date":"2015-11-15T14:10:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T11:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efk.epcc.ee\/2015\/11\/danse-macabre-review-medieval-visions-of-mortality-come-alive-2\/"},"modified":"2015-11-15T14:10:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T11:10:17","slug":"danse-macabre-review-medieval-visions-of-mortality-come-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efk.epcc.ee\/en\/2015\/11\/danse-macabre-review-medieval-visions-of-mortality-come-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Danse Macabre review \u2013 medieval visions of mortality come alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory Rose\u2019s compelling meditation on the eternal truth that we will all one day join the danse macabre is inspired by a series of medieval paintings that hang in St Nicholas\u2019s church in Tallinn, so it\u2019s natural that he should record his piece in the beautiful acoustic of that very building. Bernt Notke\u2019s pictures show the skeletal figure of death inviting a pope, emperor, empress, cardinal and king to dance with him. Rose gives all these characters \u2013 soloists drawn from the extravagantly talented Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir \u2013 lithe and generous lines to sing, accompanied by some truly original combinations of instruments. He has the impressive knack of melding a 15th-century text to music informed by Henze, Ligeti and Cage, yet with a fresher, more accessible edge. It\u2019s ripe to be staged \u2013 and danced, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory Rose\u2019s compelling meditation on the eternal truth that we will all one day join the danse macabre is inspired by a series of medieval paintings that hang in St Nicholas\u2019s church in Tallinn, so it\u2019s natural that he should record his piece in the beautiful acoustic of that very building. Bernt Notke\u2019s pictures show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efk.epcc.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efk.epcc.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efk.epcc.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efk.epcc.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efk.epcc.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efk.epcc.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efk.epcc.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efk.epcc.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efk.epcc.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}