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ID: SIGCD338
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Choir
Libera Nos: The Cry of the Oppressed
Contrapunctus
Contrapunctus
Owen Rees
1. Civitas sancti tui William Byrd [5.02]
2. Libera nos Thomas Tallis [2.08]
3. Super flumina Babylonis Philippe de Monte [5.41]
4. Quomodo cantabimus William Byrd [8.38]
5. Sitivit anima mea Manuel Cardoso [4.22]
6. Laboravi in gemitu meo Martin Peerson [5.29]
7. Miserere mei Deus William Byrd [3.20]
8. Lachrimans sitivit anima mea Pedro de Cristo [5.54]
9. Plorans plorabit William Byrd [5.07]
10. In jejunio et fletu Thomas Tallis [4.54]
11. Salvator mundi Thomas Tallis [2.50]
12. Inter vestibulum Pedro de Cristo [2.33]
13. Infelix ego William Byrd [13.34]
Total timings: [69.33]
CONTRAPUNCTUS
OWEN REES DIRECTOR
Coupling powerful interpretations with path-breaking scholarship, the choir Contrapunctus presents music by the best-known composers as well as unfamiliar masterpieces. Directed by Owen Rees, a specialist in music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the group presents imaginative programmes revealing previously undiscovered musical treasures and throwing new light on familiar works.
This recording explores the musical ‘cries of the oppressed’ from opposite ends of Europe, which include some of the most powerful works composed in England and Portugal during this period by Byrd, Tallis, Monte and Cardoso. The highlight perhaps is the first recording of a newly reconstructed vocal work by Thomas Tallis, Libera nos. This has long been thought to be an instrumental work, and has been recorded as such, but there’s persuasive historical evidence for us to be confident that this is in fact a choral setting of the antiphon Libera nos, and it is performed here with the relevant text restored to the five vocal parts |
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ID: SIGCD408
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Choir
1 Circumdederunt me dolores mortis William Byrd [5.04]
2 Libera me Domine Robert Parsons [7.29]
3 Audivi vocem de cælo William Byrd [4.15]
4 Sive vigilem William Mundy [3.31]
5 Peccantem me quotidie Robert Parsons [6.08]
6 Quemadmodum John Taverner [6.30]
7 Nunc dimittis Thomas Tallis [3.14]
8 Sive vigilem Dericke Gerarde [6.13]
9 Credo quod redemptor meus vivit Robert Parsons [2.44]
0 Media vita John Sheppard [23.09] |
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ID: SIGCD474
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Contrapunctus
Owen Rees Director
Early music consort Contrapunctus return to disc on Signum for the second release in their series centred on music of the Baldwin Partbooks (In the Midst of Life, SIGCD408). John Baldwin was a member of the choir of St George’s chapel, Windsor, and his transcriptions during the 1570s and 80s create one of the greatest surviving collections of Marian polyphony, composed during the reigns of Henry VIII and Mary Tudor. This volume explores texts celebrating Mary as mother of God, and on the Virgin and her Child.
Contrapunctus, led by Owen Rees, couple powerful interpretations with pioneering scholarship. Currently Vocal Consort in Residence at Oxford University, the ensemble’s first two recordings, Libera nos and In the Midst of Life, were both shortlisted for the Gramophone Early Music Award. |
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ID: SIGCD475
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subkolektion: Choir
Signum’s second disc with the Choir of the Queen’s College Oxford is centred around the concept of ‘relevation’, both divine revelation (particularly the apocalyptic visions of the Book of Revelation) and revelatory visions of earth and heaven. The bulk of the pieces on the recording are inspired by the extraordinary visions of John, the writer of the Book of Revelation, describing the ravaging of the world through divine judgement, the battles between good and evil, and the world’s eventual remaking as ‘a new heaven and a new earth’ in which death and suffering are no more. The disc features three new commissions, by Phillip Cooke, Toby Young and Marco Galvani, who was a final-year student at Queen’s at the time of recording. |
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