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The most 'profane' book of the Old Testament was among the favourite biblical texts of the Middle Ages. The composers of the Renaissance made particular use of it as a metaphor of divine love, or in association with the cult of Mary. After their first two extremely successful recordings, the singers of Stile Antico have chosen some of the most sumptuous examples of these musical settings. “…the superb singers of Stile Antico are up to the challenge of presenting all the required moods from pious restraint… to melting abandon… a magnificent display of the very best kind of polyphonic music.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2009 ***** “The standout piece is Tómas Luis De Victoria's epic motet "Vadam et circuibo", a masterpiece of polychoral ingenuity.” The Independent, 29th May 2009 **** “This ensemble, its members still in their 20s and just a dozen beautifully blended voices singing a cappella, has emerged as one of the best and freshest early music choirs around. Their third CD is a selection of motet and plainchant settings from the Song of Songs, the startling Old Testament collection of erotic love poems ascribed to King Solomon.” The Observer, 3rd May 2009 “…these are just the sort of performances I'd hope to hear in church, which was (one feels) the practical and creative laboratory for what is recorded: full but not strained singing, allowing an advantageous acoustic and the number (212) and freshness of voices to take care of blend and balance, with plenty left in reserve for the longer spans of the two magnificent Victoria anthems, Vadam et circuibo and Vidi speciosam.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2009 “One expectation that such an album may raise in its listeners is an answer to the question of what common and special inspiration might composers have taken from contemplating this most erotic of Biblical texts. The symptoms of their reactions might be sensuous melismas, perhaps, and anguished suspensions, surging bass–lines and… let us draw a veil there. Such devices and stratagems are in abundance, whether chastely deployed in turn by Clemens and Palestrina or flaunted all at once in the selections of Guerrero and Gombert, though no more so than they would be on a programme of Marian or Lenten devotions; and these are just the opening four tracks.
That unfair calculation ignores the plainchant antiphons between each pair of motets. These interspersions work well – as they must in a genuinely liturgical context, as here, thanks to the quiet good taste and stylistically homogeneous approach of Stile Antico, with an especially winsome unanimity to the female–only Tota pulchra es.
Indeed, these are just the sort of performances one would hope to hear in church, which was (one feels) the practical and creative laboratory for what is recorded: full but not strained singing, allowing an advantageous acoustic and the number (12) and freshness of voices to take care of blend and balance, with plenty left in reserve for the longer spans of the two magnificent Victoria anthems, Vadam et circuibo and Vidi speciosam.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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During the first half of the sixteenth century, there was no greater a ruler than the Emperor Charles V, whose court was lavishly supplied with music by composers of high talent. Charles had a personal enthusiasm for music, and his chapel was more or less in constant attendance on his travels. It is small wonder, then, that a number of the greatest composers of the age had some connection with him, including the Franco-Flemish composers Manchicourt, Cristóbal de Morales and Nicolas Gombert. Complementing these composers are the perhaps less well-known Guerrero and Jacobus Clemens non Papa. As members of the chapel choir of Charles V, most of these composers travelled the Empire widely, and were praised as among the outstanding masters of their time. Only Francisco Guerrero worked exclusively in Spain. To us the least well known of the Spanish composers of the period, and consequently the most underrated, he was the most admired Spanish musician of the second half of the sixteenth century, known for his Latin liturgical works. Manchicourt composed some of the most glorious music of the time, this CD including the well-known early motet O Virgo virginum along with the premiere recording of the Agnus Dei from the Missa Reges terrae. De Morales is widely recognised as the most important figure in early sixteenth-century Spanish music, garnering frequent praise from his contemporaries and ranking with Palestrina in his mastery of polyphony. Nordic Voices here present two of his sumptuous and richly varied motets. “Nordic Voices' mixed six-voice configuration (two sopranos, one each of mezzo, tenor, baritone and bass) is beautifully suited to the music in this programme, and their clear, radiant performances, full of character, are vividly captured by the DSD recording on this hybrid disc. The ensemble sound is intimate and close yet individual voices exhibit an airiness and spaciousness.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2007 **** “Intonation? Impeccable. Ensemble? Unfailing precision in phrasing, dynamics, color – everything finely tuned a
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ComposersAa Aagaard-Nilsen Abe, Keiko Acosta Acuña Adamek Adams, J Adams, S Aho Aiblinger Alain Albéniz Albert, E Albicastro Albinoni Albrechtsberger, J G Alfvén Alkan Allegri Allende-Blin Alvarez, R D Alyabyev Amargos Amner Amper Andia André Anerio, G F anon. Aperghis Apostel Aquino Araujo, J de Arauxo Arbeau Arensky Argento Arnaud Arndt Arne Arnold Arolas Arutiunian Assad, C Astorga Atterberg Auerbach Avison Baadsvik, A Baadsvik, Ø Babell Bacewicz Bach, C P E Bach, H Bach, J B Bach, J C Bach, J C F Bach, J C'ph Bach, J Ludwig Bach, J M I Bach, J S Bach, W F Badajoz Badings Balakirev Balay Balbi Ballard Banasik Bantock Barbarino Barber, S Bardi, A Barlow, K Barrett, N Barrière, J Bartók Bartolotti Bassani, F Bassani, G B Bassani, O Bassano, G Batchelar Bauersachs Bax Beach Beamish Beck, F I Becker, A Becker, G Bedford, L Bedrossian Beethoven Beintus Bellinati Bellini Bellstedt Belmont Belmonte Ben Ben-Haim Benda, G Benevoli Bennet Bennett, R R Berberian Berezovsky Berg Bergman, E Berio Berkeley, L Berkeley, M Berlioz Bernat Bernstein Bertali Berwald Biber Biebl Binchois Bishop, H R Bitsch Bizet Blarr Bliss Bloch, E Blumer Boccherini Body Boeck, F Boellmann Boesset Bohlin Böhm, G Böhme Boieldieu Bolcom Bonizzi Bonnet Bonporti Borcht Borg, O Borne Borodin Bortnyansky Börtz Bosanko Bosmans Botma Bottesini Boulanger, L Boulez Bourgeois, D Boutmy Bouzignac Boyd Bozza Brackett, J Bradbury Brade Brahms Brandt, V Brassin Bredero Brentner Briccialdi Briceño Bridge Britten Broström Broughton Brouwer, L Browne, J Bruch Bruckner Bruhns Brumel, A Brunckhorst Bruun Bryars Buche Buchner, H Buene Bull, O Burian Burkhard Burton, J Busoni Busto Butterworth, G Buxtehude Byrd Byrnes Cabanilles Cabezón, A Cabezón, H Caccini, G Cage Caldini Camphuysen Campion Camus, S Canova da Milano Caplet Carey, C Carissimi Carmichael, H Caroso Carpenter, C Carrara Carreno, I Cartellieri Carter, E Carulli Casella Cassidy Castagnoli Castello Castelnuovo-Tedesco Castérède Castro, Juan de Catoire Cavalli Ceballos Cendo Certon Ceuleers Chabrier Chailleux Chaminade Chaoketu Siqin Chaplin, C Charlier Charpentier, M-A Chausson Chavarria Cheetham, J Chen Yi Cherubini Chesky Chesnokov Chiti Chopin Churchill Ciaia Cilea Cimarosa Clanché Clarke, H L Clarke, Rebecca Classen Clausen, R Clemens Clementi Clerch Coates, E Codax Code Comes, J B Connesson Constant, M Coornhert Copland Corbett, S Corbetta Corea Corelli Corigliano Corkine Cornago Cornysh the elder Cornyshe Correa, H Corteccia Couperin, A-L Couperin, F Couperin, L Coward, L Cowell Cramer, J B Crecquillon Crijns Croce Croes Croft Crumb Crusell Cutting Czernowin Czerny Dalbavie Dalza Damase Damrosch Danyel Daquin Dargomïzhsky Darke Darwall Daugherty Daverson David, Ferdinand Davidov Davidovsky, M Davies, H Davies, Maxwell Davies, Walford | Davis, C Dean, B Debussy Dediu Defaye Delibes Delius Demessieux Demus Deng Yu-Hsien Denhoff Denisov Denza Desenclos Desmarest Despres Destouches, F S Deutsch, B R Devienne Diamond Didkovsky Dietholm Dieupart Dillen Dillon, J Dinicu Distler, H Dittersdorf Dlugoraj Dobrogosz Dohmen Dohnányi Dominique, C-A Donizetti Donjon Doráti Dowland Dresden Driessler Drouet, L Düben, A Düben, G Düben, M Dubois, T Dubugnon Dufay Dukas Dunne Dünser Duparc Duport Dupré 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