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Jeremiah

Jeremiah


Includes

Gesualdo:

O Vos Omnes

Sicut ovis ad occisionem

Responsorium II, Feria V in Coena Domini. Tristis est anima mea

Palestrina:

O bone Jesu

Ego vir videns

Matribus suis dixerunt

Pulchra es, O Maria virgo


David Orlowsky (clarinet)

Singer Pur

Super Audio CD

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unknown

Sony - 88697564072

(SACD)

$20.25

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Song of Songs

Song of Songs


 

Antiphons: Dum esset rex, Nigra sum, Laeva eius, Speciosa facta es, Iam hiems transiit & Alleluia:Tota pulchra es

Plainchant

Ceballos:

Hortus conclusus

Clemens:

Ego flos campi

Gombert:

Quam pulchra es

Guerrero:

Surge propera amica mea

Ego Flos Campi

Trahe me post te, Virgo Maria

Lasso:

Veni dilecte mi

Lhéritier:

Nigra sum (5vv)

Palestrina:

Osculetur me osculo oris sui

Nigra sum sed formosa

Victoria:

Vadam et circuibo civitatem

Vidi speciosam

Vivanco:

Veni dilecte mi


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

GGramophone Awards 2009

Best of Category - Early Music

GGramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - August 2009

Super Audio CD

Format:

Hybrid Multi-channel

Harmonia Mundi - HMU807489

(SACD)

$17.25

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Philippe Rogier: Polychoral Works

Philippe Rogier: Polychoral Works


Palestrina:

Motet: Domine in virtute tua

Rogier:

Motet: Domine Dominus noster

Missa: Domine Dominus noster

Regina Caeli

Laudate Dominum

Missa: Domine in virtute tua

Videntes stellam

Verbum caro


Magnificat are one of the world’s premier vocal ensembles whose recordings have met with huge critical acclaim: Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium was hailed as “quite the best recording” by Gramophone Magazine and was First Choice in Building A Library on BBC Radio 3's CD Review. In addition their recording of Victoria’s Officium Defunctorum was named Critics’ Choice by Gramophone Magazine and chosen by The Rough Guide as one of its 100 Essential Classical CDs.

Featuring three premiere recordings of newly discovered works: Rogier’s motets Domine Dominus noster, Laudate Dominum and Missa Domine in virtute tua.

This recording, celebrating the 450th anniversary of Rogier’s birth, is a kaleidoscope of sound, with up to 12 choral parts plus instrumental forces including His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, organ and harp.

One of the last great renaissance composers, Rogier’s music showcases the rich, contrapuntal renaissance style, full of lush textures and colour for which he is renowned.

Directed by Philip Cave, Magnificat specialises in the restoration and performance of neglected choral masterpieces of the 16th and 17th centuries.

In association with Linn Records, Magnificat has undertaken many highly successful recording projects of music from ‘The Golden Age’, including works by Gesualdo, Guerrero, Josquin, Rebelo, Victoria, Allegri, Tallis, Rogier and Palestrina.

His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts is a group of virtuoso wind players who specialise in playing renaissance and baroque music, bringing historically informed performance to life with style and vitality.

“Following the Spanish custom these performances accompany some of these pieces with a glorious jamboree of instruments doubling and decorating the vocal lines; this creates a particularly awesome climax in Verbum caro factum est...there's adroitness here too: the word 'Resurrexit' conjures from them a wonderful dancing rhythm.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2011 ****

“The grandeur doesn't pall, as Philip Cave varies the texture by employing a continuo group that includes both lute and harp...Rogier is not a top-flight composer but these lively performances are well worth hearing.” Classic FM Magazine, May 2011 ****

“[Cave] avoids absolute consistency of tone, colour, attack, phrasing and rhythmic profiling, and allows the music plenty of breathing space, especially at sonorous cadences or where the inner parts move with exceptional beauty or interest. He also brings to this music just enough Venetian warmth and playfulness.” International Record Review, March 2011

“The works on what is Magnificat's second disc of Rogier's music for Linn show how the composer's style, Flemish originally, absorbed ideas from other European choral traditions – including the antiphonal effects of Venetians such as Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli.” The Guardian, 24th February 2011 ***

Super Audio CD

Format:

Hybrid Multi-channel

Linn - CKD348

(SACD)

$16.75

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Hear My Words: Choral Classics from St John’s

Hear My Words: Choral Classics from St John’s


Allegri:

Miserere mei, Deus

Fauré:

Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11

Timothy Ravalde (organ) & Graham Walker (cello)

Franck, C:

Panis Angelicus

Grieg:

Ave Maris Stella

MacMillan:

A New Song

Timothy Ravalde (organ)

Palestrina:

Exsultate Deo

Timothy Ravalde (organ)

Parry:

Hear my words, ye people

Timothy Ravalde (organ)

Parsons, R:

Ave Maria

Pärt:

Bogoróditse Djévo

Rachmaninov:

Bogorodice Devo

Rutter:

O Lord, thou hast searched me out

Timothy Ravalde (organ) & Helen Scarbrough (cor anglais)

Stanford:

Jubilate

Tallis:

Agnus Dei (Missa Salve intemerata)

Vaughan Williams:

O Taste and See


Choir of St John’s College, Andrew Nethsingha

As exclusive Chandos artists, the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge here presents its second release. The first CD, of choral music by Howells (CHAN10587), was released to rave reviews in March this year. Choir and Organ wrote: ‘There is musicianship here of a rare and moving kind.’ This new release of popular choral classics should meet with a similar reception while at the same time appealing to a wider audience.

Established in the 1670s, the Choir of St John’s has a distinguished tradition of performing religious music. Its main duty is singing the daily services in the College Chapel during the University Term. During the University vacation the Choir carries out engagements in the UK and overseas, as well as undertaking a busy recording schedule. This particular release was recorded in the College Chapel in full surround-sound. The disc not only sounds spectacular, but recreates to an uncanny degree the experience of listening to the Choir perform in the chapel.

The music itself represents a time span of nearly 500 years of choral music. The earliest piece dates from the first half of the sixteenth century, and the newest was composed as recently as 2007. The styles and genres are varied, but there are clear links between the works throughout. For example, several are based on texts from the psalms, and the works by Pärt, Parsons, and Rachmaninoff offer three radically different interpretations of the Ave Maria. Some of the works also add a solo instrument to the familiar mix of voices and organ. But perhaps most importantly, all the pieces recorded here sit comfortably under the heading of ‘Popular Choral Classics’.

Allegri’s Miserere is counted among the great classics of church music. Part of its mystique stems from its origins; for many years the work was performed only in the Sistine Chapel, and as with other works tied to a single place it became an object for pilgrimage. In this case the pilgrims included Mendelssohn, as well as Mozart who famously noted down the work from memory after leaving the Vatican, thereby risking excommunication by the Catholic Church. This new release also features Stanford’s Jubilate, which was written for Trinity College, Cambridge. Intended as part of the service of Morning Prayer, it has long been one of the most popular canticles in the Anglican repertoire. In keeping with the text, Psalm 100, the tone is festive throughout.

“The boy treble voices bring lustre and freshness to the sonority, and the singing throughout is stirring and polished.” The Telegraph, 29th October 2010 ****

“the poised, sentient performance of Allegri's famous Miserere opening the disc bespeaks dedicated preparation, both technical and spiritual. I like the spatial variegations drawn by [Andrew Nethsinga]...and the unobtrusively pregnant phrasing of the tenor plainsong interjections...John's are a choir in fulsome health” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2010 ****

“eclectic repertoire expertly sung” The Observer, 5th December 2010

“A word of reassurance to those who fear that this may be a "lovely" programme of hallowed pot-boilers...If these are indeed, as the title proclaims, "choral classics", that term must have been stretched to include all that is old and good...There are also pieces of modernity...The famous choir appear to thrive under Andrew Nethsinga's management.” Gramophone Magazine, January 2011

“It is with Allegri's impressive Miserere that the disc begins. One must congratulate those boys who rise well above their fellows...an admirable choir and a nicely varied programme.” International Record Review, December 2010

“St John's has a wonderful acoustic, neither too spacious nor too intimate, and in Andrew Nethsinga it has a director who knows how to fill every corner with grace and clarity...the choir sings suavely and radiantly without resorting to cathedral prissiness; the recorded sound is superb. A joy all round.” Classic FM Magazine, February 2011 ****

Super Audio CD

Format:

Hybrid Stereo

Chandos - CHSA5085

(SACD)

$16.75

(also available to download from $10.50)

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Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli, etc.

Palestrina:

Missa Papae Marcelli

Viri Galilaei - Introitus in Ascensione Domini

Omnes gentes

Alleluia Ascendit Deus

Jesu nostra redemptio

Beati omnes

Ascendit Deus a 5

Ascendit Deus a 6

Caro mea

Coenantibus illis


Ensemble Officium, Wilfried Rombach

The CD’s repertoire is complimented by large-scale motets for between five and twelve parts for Ascension Day.

“Although the Tallis Scholars remain the world’s premier Palestrina performers, if forced to make such comparisons I’d without reservation say that Ensemble Officium is very close behind. I look forward to hearing more – much more - from this excellent group.” Classicstoday

“It's as though these singers wished to strip the work of some of its more portentous, mythical accretions; it's an almost understated performance, though by no means lacking in commitment.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2010

Super Audio CD

Format:

Hybrid Multi-channel

Christophorus - CHR77313

(SACD)

$18.00

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