Music from the reign of King James I
Music from the reign of King James I
Mit Werken von:
Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)
, Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
, Edmund Hooper (1553-1621)
, Robert Ramsey (1590-1644)
Mitwirkende:
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
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Tomkins: Be strong and of a good courage; O sing unto the Lord a new song; When David heard; Then David mournedc
+Gibbons: Great king of gods; O all true faithful hearts; Fancey in C; See, see, the Word is incarnate; Fantazia of foure parts; Hosanna to the Son of David; O Lord, in thy wrath rebuke me not; Almighty and everlasting God; Preludium; O clap your hands; Fancy in Gamutt flatt
+Hooper: Great Service
+Ramsey: How are the mighty fallen
- Künstler: Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell
- Label: Hyperion, DDD, 2010
- Bestellnummer: 4963021
- Erscheinungstermin: 18.2.2011
Product-Information:
Westminster Abbey has been the focus of British royal occasions for centuries, and the early seventeenth century saw the most dazzling musicians of the age writing music for the Court in all its various incarnations. This fascinating disc presents a selection of works from the reign of King James I.
The most celebrated name on this disc is that of Orlando Gibbons, and some of his most masterly works are presented here including the gloriously contrapuntal O clap your hands and the startlingly original verse anthem See, see, the Word is incarnate, setting an extraordinary text which covers the whole of the liturgical year.
The most eloquent and emotionally intense music recorded here was most likely never intended for performance in the Abbey, or any other church, but has a particularly Royal relevance. The laments of King David were set by many composers of this period. These moving texts have no place in the liturgy, being neither part of the Ordinary of Psalms and canticles, nor able to furnish a seasonally appropriate or devotional anthem. Their composition seems therefore to have been a response to the death in November 1612 of the Prince of Wales, Prince Henry. These are courtly laments, in which the composers give voice – and perhaps vied to give voice most eloquently – to the grief of the King (in the settings of David’s lament for his son Absalom) and Prince Charles (in the ‘Jonathan’ pieces, in which the king describes his friend as ‘my brother’). Included is the best known of all the ‘Absalom’ pieces, Tomkins’s When David heard, together with his equally moving ‘Jonathan’ setting, Then David mourned.
Rezensionen
'This is good singing, and many choirs would envy the tight ensemble, impeccable intonation and crystal-clear diction, not to mention the unfailingly excellent solo voices drawn from the ranks of the choir' (International Record Review)
'At the heart of the sequence lie Tomkins's deeply expressive When David heard and Then David mourned, pieces in which the tension of the dissonances is relished by James O'Donnell's Westminster Abbey singers more fully than is often the case with English Choirs' (The Irish Times)
- Tracklisting
- Details
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Thomas Tomkins: Be Strong And Of A Good Courage (Anthem)
- 2 Orlando Gibbons: Great King Of Gods (Motette)
- 3 Orlando Gibbons: O All True, Faithful Hearts
- 4 Orlando Gibbons: Fancy In C fa ut
Great Service (für Chor und Orgel)
- 5 Edmund Hooper: Nr. 1 Magnificat
- 6 Edmund Hooper: Nr. 2 Nunc dimittis
- 7 Thomas Tomkins: O Sing Unto The Lord A New Song (Anthem)
- 8 Orlando Gibbons: Fancy in Gamutt flatt
- 9 Thomas Tomkins: When David Heard That Absalom Was Slain (Full Anthem)
- 10 Thomas Tomkins: Then David Mourned (Anthem)
- 11 Robert Ramsey: How Are The Mighty Fallen
- 12 Orlando Gibbons: See, The Word Is Incarnate (Verse Anthem)
- 13 Orlando Gibbons: Fant. a 4 / Fantasien a 4 Nr. 1-2 Nr. 1
- 14 Orlando Gibbons: Hosanna To The Son Of David (Motette)
- 15 Orlando Gibbons: O Lord, In Thy Wrath
- 16 Orlando Gibbons: Almighty And Everlasting God
- 17 Orlando Gibbons: Preludes Nr. 1 (in a)
- 18 Orlando Gibbons: O Clap Your Hands
