Parsons, R: Magnificat from the First Great Service |
This page lists all recordings of Magnificat from the First Great Service, by Robert Parsons (c.1535-c.1571) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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Voces Cantabiles, Barnaby Smith This recording aims to provide Robert Parsons, who died tragically in his forties, with a memorial service he never received and aid his return to a place alongside the greatest English Renaissance composers. · Movements from the First Great Service, scored for two antiphonal choirs, provide the core of this ‘remembrance service’ for Robert Parsons. In scale and polyphonic grandeur the work maintains the old Catholic tradition, while making use of the new Protestant liturgy with its revolutionary setting of the 1549 English texts. Interspersed between movements of the First Great Service are a number of pieces taken from the Responds for the Dead, set to Latin texts. The Magnificat, which opens this recording, is the largest-scale single work that Parsons wrote. “The music’s lines become majestically entangled; cadences process without any resolution; solemn musings suddenly switch to a dance or brawl: here is the 17th century’s avant-garde.” The Times on the music of Robert Parsons “A useful recital gives a broader view of the composer of the famous Ave Maria.” Gramophone Magazine, April 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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