Renaissance Masterpieces – Pro Cantione Antiqua. Directed by Mark Brown
EAC | FLAC IMG+CUE+LOG (225 MB) | Complete HQ Scans (10,3 MB) | 1CD | MU-RS
Classical: Renaissance, Vocal | IMP PCD 806 | 1985
EAC | FLAC IMG+CUE+LOG (225 MB) | Complete HQ Scans (10,3 MB) | 1CD | MU-RS
Classical: Renaissance, Vocal | IMP PCD 806 | 1985
Gregorio Allegri's Miserere is written in five parts with its simple design being broken by the florid interpolations of a second four part choir of soloists. The highest note reached is a top C, rare for its time. These sections were so highly regarded that they remained a closely guarded secret for many years. Indeed, only three copies are known to have been authorised for use outside the Sistine Chapel, before 1770. It is known that Mozart, when fourteen, copied the entire piece out from memory although it was left to the redoubtable Dr Burney to have it printed, in 1790, after he came across a copy during one of his many journeys across Europe.
Thomas Tallis was a slow developer who ultimately achieved complete mastery of choral writing. None of his works is more astonishing than the mighty forty part motet 'Spem in alium', which was probably composed in honour of Queen Elizabeth's fortieth birthday, in 1573. Its text is drawn from the liturgical historia of ]udith. The first performance, almost certainly, would have been given by single voices, formed into eight five part choirs, (as in this recording) and not by the sort of massed forces nowadays associated with choral societies.
The 'Lamentations of ]eremiah the Prophet' is one of Tallis's best known compositions, written for Holy Week, its mournful text is taken from Jeremiah. Its whole approach and technical treatment belongs to an entirely different category, from that of 'Spem in alium', and begins 'lncipit lamentatio …. ' and ends with the response 'Jerusalem convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum'. Tallis was apparently a well loved, humble and unassuming figure whose epitaph provides us with a clue to the qualities needed to walk, unharmed, through the minefield of the Reformation and, in common with any good craftman, to satisfy the demands of his current patron:
'As he dyd lyve, so also did he dy, in myld and quyet sort (O. Happy man)'.Matthew Adams
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Gregorio Allegri (b Rome, 1582; d Rome, 1652)
1. Miserere
Thomas Tallis (b c1505; d Greenwich, 1585)
2. Spem in alium
3. Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet
PRO CANTIONE ANTIQUA
Directed by MARK BROWN
Another edition in MCA Classics (vinyl rip available here)
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