Brumel - From Darkness to Light: Complete Lamentations for Good Friday
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Label: Obsidian
Cat No: CD719
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st November 2019
Contents
Works
Ave maris stellaJesus autem cum ieiunasset
Multiplicati sunt qui tribulant me
Salve regina
Verbum caro factum est
Lamentations of Jeremiah
Paranymphus
Recordare virgo Mater
Sancta Maria succurre miseris
Artists
Musica SecretaConductors
Laurie StrasDeborah Roberts
Works
Ave maris stellaJesus autem cum ieiunasset
Multiplicati sunt qui tribulant me
Salve regina
Verbum caro factum est
Lamentations of Jeremiah
Paranymphus
Recordare virgo Mater
Sancta Maria succurre miseris
Artists
Musica SecretaConductors
Laurie StrasDeborah Roberts
About
Brumel’s Lamentations have been known, performed, and recorded for many years in a much abbreviated form of two verses and the refrain, “Jerusalem, convertere”. The additional seventeen verses, which were found hiding in plain sight in a sixteenth-century manuscript by Musica Secreta’s co-director Laurie Stras, reveal a monumental setting that is both intricate in its detail and imposing in its formal construction; a masterpiece brought from darkness into light.
This complete set of Brumel’s Lamentations was preserved for centuries in a manuscript that was not copied for display, nor for a great noble chapel; it has no illuminations, and virtually no composer ascriptions to lead the curious towards its musical treasures. But its copyist, an obscure friar, was a different kind of master, leaving tiny details in the decorations that leap out at the reader like direct messages from the past. He left another manuscript, copied for a Florentine convent that is filled with tiny inscriptions and portraits of the nuns and the music it contains gives us a similar aural portrait of the nuns’ daily life. The second half of the disc brings the music of this second manuscript into focus, with gems by Josquin des Prez, Jean Mouton, and Loyset Compère sitting alongside the anonymous beauty of works that decorated the nuns’ worship throughout the year.
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