Mendelssohn: Motets & Psalms

Release Date: 13th Jun 2011
Catalogue No: ELQ4802475
Label: Eloquence
Length: 57 minutes

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Mendelssohn: Hear My Prayer

Work length10:13

Felicity Palmer (soprano), Gillian Weir (organ)
Heinrich Schütz Choir and Chorale
Sir Roger Norrington
Recorded: 1972-02-29
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Mendelssohn: Six Motets, Op. 79

Work length10:54

Heinrich Schütz Choir and Chorale
Sir Roger Norrington
Recorded: 1972-02-29
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

No.1 Frohlocket, ihr Völker auf Erden

Track length1:18

No.2 Herr Gott, Du bist unsre Zuflucht für und für

Track length3:11

No.3 Erhaben, o Herr, über alles Lob

Track length1:18

No.4 Herr, gedenke nicht unsrer Übeltaten

Track length2:02

No.5 Lasset uns frohlocken

Track length1:17

No.6 Um unsrer Sünden willen

Track length1:48

Mendelssohn: Beati Mortui

Work length3:23

Heinrich Schütz Choir and Chorale
Sir Roger Norrington
Recorded: 1972-02-29
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Excerpt, Mendelssohn: Three Psalms, Op. 78

Work length8:21

Heinrich Schütz Choir and Chorale
Sir Roger Norrington
Recorded: 1972-02-29
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Psalm 22: Mein Gott, warum hast (Op.78, No.3; 1844)

Track length8:21

Mendelssohn: Veni, Domine

Work length4:09

Gillian Weir (organ)
Heinrich Schütz Choir and Chorale
Sir Roger Norrington
Recorded: 1972-02-29
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Mendelssohn: Ave Maria

Work length8:12

Gillian Weir (organ)
Heinrich Schütz Choir and Chorale
Sir Roger Norrington
Recorded: 1972-02-29
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Excerpt, Mendelssohn: Three Psalms, Op. 78

Work length12:17

Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury
Recorded: 1990-12-13
Recording Venue: King's College, Cambridge

Warum toben die Heiden (Psalm 11)

Track length8:10

Richte mich, Gott (Psalm 43)

Track length4:07

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Mendelssohn’s ‘Hear my prayer’ (or, in its English adaptation also known as ‘O for the wings of a dove’) is a much loved piece of ‘Victoriana’, made famous by, among others, Master Ernest Lough. Often sung by boy sopranos, it is here performed by Felicity Palmer, traditionally a mezzo, but using the soprano register of her voice here. She is soloist with the Heinrich Schütz Choir and Chorale under Roger Norrington, on an Argo LP which also contains the Sechs Sprüche (Six Aphorisms), a collection of short motets for particular days in the ecclesiastical year was written in 1845, the year in which Mendelssohn resumed directorship of the Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestra. The three sublime Psalms, Op. 73 are included (shared between the Heinrich Schütz and King’s College choirs) as is the brief but touching Ave Maria, written in Rome in 1830 and whose publication at the time led The Neue Zeitschrift für Musik said of it at the time that ‘the music sings so convincingly of the sanctity of Mary that it could lead a non-Catholic to her. ‘If issued as a pop disc Ave Maria would probably make the top ten’ wrote The Gramophone when this recording was first issued.

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