Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore - Martin Peerson: Latin Motets (2005)
BAND/ARTIST: Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore
- Title: Martin Peerson: Latin Motets
- Year Of Release: 2005
- Label: Hyperion
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:05:31
- Total Size: 281 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Deus omnipotens: I. Deum omnipotens
02. Deus omnipotens: II. Redemptor mundi
03. Pater fili paraclete
04. Levavi oculos meos: I. Levavi oculos
05. Levavi oculos meos: II. Ecce non dormitabit
06. Mulieres sedentes: I. Mulieres sedentes
07. Mulieres sedentes: II. Christus factus est
08. Hora nona: I. Hora nona
09. Hora nona: II. Latus eius
10. O Rex gloriae
11. Quid vobis videtur
12. O Domine Jesu Christe
13. Laboravi in gemitu meo
14. Nolite fieri: I. Nolite fieri
15. Nolite fieri: II. Multa flagella peccatoris
The 1604 Royal May Day celebrations—the ‘Proms in the Park’ of their day—headlined with a madrigal by Martin Peerson. His career can be traced through posts at Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral, and his powerful patrons enabled a considerable quantity of music to be printed and published.
Today little remains. These fifteen Latin motets survive in a single, incomplete source. Their performance here—the first for some three hundred years—is possible thanks to a pioneering reconstruction (by Richard Rastall of Antico Edition) of the missing voice part.
Despite their pre-Reformation Latin texts (at a time where few institutions were permitted such Popery) and Peerson’s 1606 conviction for recusancy, the composer’s evident position at the heart of the new Anglican establishment confirms the overall esteem in which he was held. And the music more than lives up to this reputation—harmonies of sustained intensity and an intricate understanding of the contemporary imitative technique lend the collection a rare cohesion and give testimony to a man of immense compassion and faith.
The Ex Cathedra Consort—the twelve-voice ‘soloistic’ ensemble from Ex Cathedra—gives performances every bit as good as the group’s enviable reputation would predict.
01. Deus omnipotens: I. Deum omnipotens
02. Deus omnipotens: II. Redemptor mundi
03. Pater fili paraclete
04. Levavi oculos meos: I. Levavi oculos
05. Levavi oculos meos: II. Ecce non dormitabit
06. Mulieres sedentes: I. Mulieres sedentes
07. Mulieres sedentes: II. Christus factus est
08. Hora nona: I. Hora nona
09. Hora nona: II. Latus eius
10. O Rex gloriae
11. Quid vobis videtur
12. O Domine Jesu Christe
13. Laboravi in gemitu meo
14. Nolite fieri: I. Nolite fieri
15. Nolite fieri: II. Multa flagella peccatoris
The 1604 Royal May Day celebrations—the ‘Proms in the Park’ of their day—headlined with a madrigal by Martin Peerson. His career can be traced through posts at Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral, and his powerful patrons enabled a considerable quantity of music to be printed and published.
Today little remains. These fifteen Latin motets survive in a single, incomplete source. Their performance here—the first for some three hundred years—is possible thanks to a pioneering reconstruction (by Richard Rastall of Antico Edition) of the missing voice part.
Despite their pre-Reformation Latin texts (at a time where few institutions were permitted such Popery) and Peerson’s 1606 conviction for recusancy, the composer’s evident position at the heart of the new Anglican establishment confirms the overall esteem in which he was held. And the music more than lives up to this reputation—harmonies of sustained intensity and an intricate understanding of the contemporary imitative technique lend the collection a rare cohesion and give testimony to a man of immense compassion and faith.
The Ex Cathedra Consort—the twelve-voice ‘soloistic’ ensemble from Ex Cathedra—gives performances every bit as good as the group’s enviable reputation would predict.
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