Renaissance Choral Masterworks
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95662
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 16th February 2018
Contents
Works
Miserere mei, DeusAve verum corpus
Salve Regina
Absalon fili mi
A le guancie de rose
Alla battaglia
Gloria
In nobil sangue (Giovanni Gabrieli)
Ahi senza te
Alma cortes' e bella
Amor dove mi guidi
Dolce nemica mia
Fuggi per se sai
Kyrie
Omnes gentes plaudite manibus, C52
O vos omnes
Cor mio, deh, non languire
Crucifixus
Agnus Dei
Hodie Christus natus est
Missa Benedicam Dominum
Laudate Pueri I
Vespro della beata Vergine
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
Stabat MaterT'amo mi vita
Ninfe leggiadre e belle
Spem in alium (40-part motet)
O vos omnes
Magnificat octavi toni
O bene mio famm'uno favore
Artists
Choir of Clare College, CambridgeChapelle du Roi
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
Ensemble San Felice
Chamber Choir of Europe
Conductors
Timothy BrownAlistair Dixon
Stephen Cleobury
Christopher Robinson
Federico Bardazzi
Nicol Matt
Works
Miserere mei, DeusAve verum corpus
Salve Regina
Absalon fili mi
A le guancie de rose
Alla battaglia
Gloria
In nobil sangue (Giovanni Gabrieli)
Ahi senza te
Alma cortes' e bella
Amor dove mi guidi
Dolce nemica mia
Fuggi per se sai
Kyrie
Omnes gentes plaudite manibus, C52
O vos omnes
Cor mio, deh, non languire
Crucifixus
Agnus Dei
Hodie Christus natus est
Missa Benedicam Dominum
Laudate Pueri I
Vespro della beata Vergine
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
Stabat MaterT'amo mi vita
Ninfe leggiadre e belle
Spem in alium (40-part motet)
O vos omnes
Magnificat octavi toni
O bene mio famm'uno favore
Artists
Choir of Clare College, CambridgeChapelle du Roi
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
Ensemble San Felice
Chamber Choir of Europe
Conductors
Timothy BrownAlistair Dixon
Stephen Cleobury
Christopher Robinson
Federico Bardazzi
Nicol Matt
About
This album contains some of the most enduring masterpieces from that era. It opens with the haunting strains of the Miserere which Allegri wrote for the Lenten liturgies of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome: the austere, haunting harmonies quickly became so renowned that the basilica moved to protect the work’s uniqueness by withholding the score and allowing performances only by its own choir.
There follows the Renaissance blockbuster Spem in alium, which Thomas Tallis created in 40 separate parts, to rival the grand but more static conception of an Italian contemporary. The courts of Spain and the Netherlands are also represented, with the lamenting O vos omnes by Victoria and Absalon fili mii by Josquin. The performances are compiled from albums by some of the world’s most renowned choirs for this repertoire, mostly based in the English centre of choral excellence, the chapels of Cambridge.
However, the music is largely Italian in origin, as one might expect: the melancholy strains of Palestrina’s Stabat mater and Lotti’s magical, eight‐part Crucifixus are answered by more joyful and exuberant pieces by Monteverdi and Gabrieli, conceived for the Basilica of St Mark’s in Venice. This is a unique collection on record, enhanced by a lively introduction in the booklet to each work and composer on the album.
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