The Cambridge Singers - Choral Concert: Cambridge Singers - Gabrieli, G. / Monteverdi, C. / Palestrina, G.P. Da / Lasso, O. Di / Sweelinck, J.P. (The Sacred Flame) (2009)
BAND/ARTIST: The Cambridge Singers
- Title: Choral Concert: Cambridge Singers - Gabrieli, G. / Monteverdi, C. / Palestrina, G.P. Da / Lasso, O. Di / Sweelinck, J.P. (The Sacred Flame)
- Year Of Release: 2009
- Label: Collegium
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:18:23
- Total Size: 315 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Jubilate Deo
02. Beatus vir, SV 268 (Live): Beatus vir
03. Christe adoramus te
04. Cantate Domino canticum novum
05. Motets for 4 Voices, Book 2: Sicut cervus
06. Motets for 5-8 Voices: Book 5 for 5 Voices: Exsultate Deo
07. Christus factus est
08. O vos omnes
09. Timor et tremor
10. Ave verum corpus
11. Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
12. Magnificat anima mea, BuxWV Anh 1: Magnificat, BuxWV Anh. 1
13. Jesu dulcis memoria
14. O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam
15. Crux fidelis
16. Ave Maria
17. Dixit Maria ad angelum
18. Psalms of David, Op. 2: Psalmen Davids sampt etlichen Moteten und Concerten, Op. 2: Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt, SWV 36, "Psalm 100"
19. Selig sind die Toten, SWV 281
20. O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht, BWV 118
John Rutter's handpicked Cambridge Singers have lately been more often deployed in his own music, but Rutter originally formed the group to perform monuments of Renaissance sacred music like those heard on this release. The singers, adult and mixed in gender, mostly emerged from the choral groups of prominent English universities and cathedrals, but Rutter has certainly put his own stamp on them. His performances of Renaissance works tend to make them sound like his own music, with a sunny, slightly soprano-heavy sound (there are 12 sopranos and only seven or eight singers on the other voice parts) clear articulation of the texts and the polyphony, and a certain piety. The program here extends forward into the Baroque with Bach and Buxtehude, not with notable success, but many of the Renaissance standards are very appealing. Consider the setting of O vos omnes by Carlo Gesualdo (track 8), for which the O vos omnes by Victoria (track 13) provides a useful foil. The bright sound of Rutter's singers collides with the work's gloomy chromatic passages to create a sort of chiaroscuro effect. The performances of Palestrina and especially of Josquin's Ave Maria...virgo serena are clean and undeniably attractive. If Rutter has a slight tendency to make diverse music sound similar. he is technically faultless, and the engineering by Simon Eadon, working in the Great Hall of University College School in London, is exceptional. Notes, in English only, provide texts and substantial introductions to each piece.
01. Jubilate Deo
02. Beatus vir, SV 268 (Live): Beatus vir
03. Christe adoramus te
04. Cantate Domino canticum novum
05. Motets for 4 Voices, Book 2: Sicut cervus
06. Motets for 5-8 Voices: Book 5 for 5 Voices: Exsultate Deo
07. Christus factus est
08. O vos omnes
09. Timor et tremor
10. Ave verum corpus
11. Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
12. Magnificat anima mea, BuxWV Anh 1: Magnificat, BuxWV Anh. 1
13. Jesu dulcis memoria
14. O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam
15. Crux fidelis
16. Ave Maria
17. Dixit Maria ad angelum
18. Psalms of David, Op. 2: Psalmen Davids sampt etlichen Moteten und Concerten, Op. 2: Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt, SWV 36, "Psalm 100"
19. Selig sind die Toten, SWV 281
20. O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht, BWV 118
John Rutter's handpicked Cambridge Singers have lately been more often deployed in his own music, but Rutter originally formed the group to perform monuments of Renaissance sacred music like those heard on this release. The singers, adult and mixed in gender, mostly emerged from the choral groups of prominent English universities and cathedrals, but Rutter has certainly put his own stamp on them. His performances of Renaissance works tend to make them sound like his own music, with a sunny, slightly soprano-heavy sound (there are 12 sopranos and only seven or eight singers on the other voice parts) clear articulation of the texts and the polyphony, and a certain piety. The program here extends forward into the Baroque with Bach and Buxtehude, not with notable success, but many of the Renaissance standards are very appealing. Consider the setting of O vos omnes by Carlo Gesualdo (track 8), for which the O vos omnes by Victoria (track 13) provides a useful foil. The bright sound of Rutter's singers collides with the work's gloomy chromatic passages to create a sort of chiaroscuro effect. The performances of Palestrina and especially of Josquin's Ave Maria...virgo serena are clean and undeniably attractive. If Rutter has a slight tendency to make diverse music sound similar. he is technically faultless, and the engineering by Simon Eadon, working in the Great Hall of University College School in London, is exceptional. Notes, in English only, provide texts and substantial introductions to each piece.
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