My Beloved Spake: Anthems by Purcell and Pelham Humfrey
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Label: Chandos - Chaconne
Cat No: CHAN0790
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 29th October 2012
Contents
Works
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E minor (Evening Service)O Lord my God
Behold now, praise the Lord, Z3
Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z15
Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes, Z135
My beloved spake, Z28
O sing unto the Lord, Z44
Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z49 'Bell Anthem'
Remember not, O Lord, our offences, Z50
Artists
Iestyn Davies (countertenor)James Gilchrist (tenor)
David Stout (baritone)
Neal Davies (bass)
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
St John’s Sinfonia
Conductor
Andrew NethsinghaWorks
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E minor (Evening Service)O Lord my God
Behold now, praise the Lord, Z3
Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z15
Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes, Z135
My beloved spake, Z28
O sing unto the Lord, Z44
Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z49 'Bell Anthem'
Remember not, O Lord, our offences, Z50
Artists
Iestyn Davies (countertenor)James Gilchrist (tenor)
David Stout (baritone)
Neal Davies (bass)
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
St John’s Sinfonia
Conductor
Andrew NethsinghaAbout
Humfrey was an English composer of the seventeenth century, known mainly for his verse anthems. Being well travelled, he produced works that in their vocal character show the influence of Italian music, and in the instrumental writing that of French music. That said, from these major foreign influences Humfrey forged a personal style that is uniquely English. Although as a composer he was generally forward-looking, his music also shows sub-elements of the English Golden Age of yesteryear. O Lord my God, for instance, is influenced by John Dowland’s celebrated Lachrimae Pavan of almost eighty years earlier.
In contrast, the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis were composed simply to be liturgically appropriate, with a text setting that is naturalistic and direct. Humfrey died at the age of twenty-seven, but even at this young age, he exerted a strong influence on his peers, including Henry Purcell, who as a young boy sang treble in Humfrey’s Chapel Royal Choir.
The works by Purcell recorded here range from works written when the composer was in his teenage years (Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei being a masterly example) to the crowning glory of the recording, O sing unto the Lord, which Purcell wrote when he was in his thirties, and compositionally on fire. At this stage of his career no other composer could touch him. Instruments and voices sing from the same hymn sheet, form and content are inseparable, past and present musical styles seamlessly intermingle, technique and virtuosity are indistinguishable from each other – and soloists and choir mesh together in a dazzling and life-affirming way.
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