Giles Swayne: Stabat mater

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If this arouses the expectation (or dread) that we're in for another incautiously blended World Music buffet, then prepare to be agreeably surprised...Swayne is expert in his handling of unaccompanied... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Nov 2010
Catalogue No: 8572595
Label: Naxos
Length: 67 minutes

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trad.: O Lulum (Senegalese Song)

Work length1:35

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Swayne: Magnificat I, Op. 33

Work length4:15

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Dmitri Ensemble
Graham Ross

Swayne: The silent land, Op. 70

Work length22:50

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Raphael Wallfisch
Dmitri Ensemble
Graham Ross

Swayne: Ave verum corpus, Op. 94

Work length2:59

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Dmitri Ensemble
Graham Ross

Swayne: Stabat mater, Op. 95

Work length35:47

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Sophie Bevan, Kate Symonds-Joy, Ben Alden, Jonathan Sells
Dmitri Ensemble
Graham Ross

Stanza I - Chant I - Muslim praise of God

Track length2:49

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Stanza II - Chant II

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Jewish praise of God

Track length1:59

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Stanza III-IV - Chant III - Muslim blessing of the Dead

Track length6:11

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Stanza V-VII

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Motet I - Death of the son

Track length2:23

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Chant IV

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Jewish blessing of the Dead

Track length2:07

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Motet II

Track length4:10

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Chant V

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Prayer for Reconciliation

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Motet III

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Motet IV: Prayer for Peace

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The four pieces on this disc span three decades of Giles Swayne’s choral music, their striking echoes of Latin plainchant, Tudor polyphony and traditional African music providing contrasting and complementary strands characteristic of this much-travelled composer.

“The Dmitri Ensemble bring the work of this neglected master into focus for the first time and do so with virtuosic swagger.” John Rutter (Producer on this disc)

Magnificat I draws on the music of the Senegalese Jola people and the Ba-Benezele of the Congo. Swayne’s moving threnody, The silent land, scored for 40-part chorus and solo cello, combines words from the Requiem Mass and Christina Rossetti’s poetry, while Stabat mater is dedicated to the grieving mothers of Israel and Palestine.

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January 2011

If this arouses the expectation (or dread) that we're in for another incautiously blended World Music buffet, then prepare to be agreeably surprised...Swayne is expert in his handling of unaccompanied choral resources...everything is held together by a sense of sustained, muscular line rare among modern British composers. A very worthwhile disc

January 2011

As a self-confessed outsider to the "English choral tradition", Swayne nevertheless draws on a trio of stylistic influences: Latin plainchant, Tudor polyphony and traditional African music.

March 2011

Throughout, the four soloists and the Dmitri Ensemble under Graham Ross give passionate, committed performances. The stabbing staccatos and syncopated rhythms of Magnificat I bounce off the original Senegalese material with tremendous vigour...[Stabat Mater] rings with solo and choral singing of raw, magnificent power and sympathetic eloquence. Indeed, it would be hard to imagine a better performance.

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