Alamire, David Skinner - The Spy's Choirbook - Petrus Alamire & The Court Of Henry VIII (2014) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Alamire, David Skinner
- Title: The Spy's Choirbook - Petrus Alamire & The Court Of Henry VIII
- Year Of Release: 2014
- Label: Obsidian
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) / flac 24bits - 96.0kHz +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:55:08
- Total Size: 550 mb / 2.14 gb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
CD1
01. Celeste beneficium
02. Adiutorium nostrum
03. Nesciens mater
04. Ave Regina caelorum
05. Descendi in hortum meum
06. Sancta trinitas unus Deus
07. Vexilla Regis - Passio Domini nostri
08. Fama malum
09. Doleo super te frater mi Ionatha
10. O Domine Jesu Christe - Et sanctissima mater tua
11. Maximilla Christo amabilis
12. Sancta Maria, succurre miseris - O werder mondt
13. Sancta et immaculata virginitas
14. Missus est Gabriel archangelus
15. Dulcissima virgo Maria
16. Tota pulchra es, amica mea - O pulcherrima mulierum - Salve
17. O sancta Maria, virgo virginum
18. Verbum bonum et suave
19. Recordamini quomodo praedixit filium
20. O beatissime Domine Jesu Christe - Fac me de tua gratia ut
CD2
01. Ave sanctissima Maria
02. Ecce Maria genuit nobis
03. Congratulamini mihi omnes
04. Egregie Christi martir Christophore - Ecce enim
05. Alma redemptoris mater
06. Dulces exuviae
07. Dulces exuviae
08. Dulces exuviae
09. Dulces exuviae
10. Dulces exuviae
11. Absalon, fili mi
12. Jesus autem transiens
13. Anima mea liquefacta est - Invenerunt me - Filiae Jerusalem
14. Tribulatio et angustia invenerunt me
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The audience of Renaissance enthusiasts at which this release is aimed may well be able to get an idea of its contents from the packaging, but others may be less sure of what they're getting into. Here's a brief rundown: the album includes the contents of a single choirbook from the British Library, presented by one Petrus Alamire to Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon around 1516. All of the 34 pieces are sacred motets. Alamire, whose adopted name was a sequence of note names within the medieval hexachord system, was indeed a diplomat and a spy, as well as a music scribe and a singer and composer of some talent. The choirbook did not, however, contain any kind of coded message. It was simply a collection of choice pieces Alamire had gathered in his travels, something like "things you might not have heard or been aware of." Finally, the choir performing here is also named Capella Alamire. Some of the pieces are a cappella, and some are done with the loud or outdoor Renaissance forces, here represented by the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble. So, The Spy's Choirbook is not necessarily a candidate for basic Renaissance collections, but all the music is smoothly performed, and along the way are some nice finds that have never been heard on recordings anywhere else. The trio of La Rue motets on the first part of the program are prime examples of that composer's Josquin-like balance, and the second part contains an intriguing sequence of four settings of the same text, Dulces exuviae, by Josquin, Jean Mouton, Alexander Agricola, and an anonymous composer. The Spy's Choirbook in its own time was something of a connoisseur's selection of High Renaissance motets, and that is what it remains today.
CD1
01. Celeste beneficium
02. Adiutorium nostrum
03. Nesciens mater
04. Ave Regina caelorum
05. Descendi in hortum meum
06. Sancta trinitas unus Deus
07. Vexilla Regis - Passio Domini nostri
08. Fama malum
09. Doleo super te frater mi Ionatha
10. O Domine Jesu Christe - Et sanctissima mater tua
11. Maximilla Christo amabilis
12. Sancta Maria, succurre miseris - O werder mondt
13. Sancta et immaculata virginitas
14. Missus est Gabriel archangelus
15. Dulcissima virgo Maria
16. Tota pulchra es, amica mea - O pulcherrima mulierum - Salve
17. O sancta Maria, virgo virginum
18. Verbum bonum et suave
19. Recordamini quomodo praedixit filium
20. O beatissime Domine Jesu Christe - Fac me de tua gratia ut
CD2
01. Ave sanctissima Maria
02. Ecce Maria genuit nobis
03. Congratulamini mihi omnes
04. Egregie Christi martir Christophore - Ecce enim
05. Alma redemptoris mater
06. Dulces exuviae
07. Dulces exuviae
08. Dulces exuviae
09. Dulces exuviae
10. Dulces exuviae
11. Absalon, fili mi
12. Jesus autem transiens
13. Anima mea liquefacta est - Invenerunt me - Filiae Jerusalem
14. Tribulatio et angustia invenerunt me
The audience of Renaissance enthusiasts at which this release is aimed may well be able to get an idea of its contents from the packaging, but others may be less sure of what they're getting into. Here's a brief rundown: the album includes the contents of a single choirbook from the British Library, presented by one Petrus Alamire to Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon around 1516. All of the 34 pieces are sacred motets. Alamire, whose adopted name was a sequence of note names within the medieval hexachord system, was indeed a diplomat and a spy, as well as a music scribe and a singer and composer of some talent. The choirbook did not, however, contain any kind of coded message. It was simply a collection of choice pieces Alamire had gathered in his travels, something like "things you might not have heard or been aware of." Finally, the choir performing here is also named Capella Alamire. Some of the pieces are a cappella, and some are done with the loud or outdoor Renaissance forces, here represented by the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble. So, The Spy's Choirbook is not necessarily a candidate for basic Renaissance collections, but all the music is smoothly performed, and along the way are some nice finds that have never been heard on recordings anywhere else. The trio of La Rue motets on the first part of the program are prime examples of that composer's Josquin-like balance, and the second part contains an intriguing sequence of four settings of the same text, Dulces exuviae, by Josquin, Jean Mouton, Alexander Agricola, and an anonymous composer. The Spy's Choirbook in its own time was something of a connoisseur's selection of High Renaissance motets, and that is what it remains today.
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