William Byrd: The Great Service
The Great Service
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
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- +O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth; Prevent us, Lord; How long shall mine enemies?;Out of the deep; Christ rising again from dead; Sing joyfully; Voluntary for my Lady Nevell; Fancy for my Lady Nevell
- Künstler: Robert Quinney (Orgel),Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell
- Label: Hyperion, DDD, 2005
- Bestellnummer: 1104808
- Erscheinungstermin: 8.12.2005
Product-Information:
It is not known when or for whom William Byrd wrote his monumental ‘Great Service’, but we can be sure that he would approve of this new recording from Westminster Abbey. The second half of the sixteenth century was a heady time for the post-Reformation Church of England. Out of the ashes of the Catholic tradition a new—and decidedly Anglican—musical enthusiasm arose, and with it three distinct styles for settings of the Canticles, so central to Cranmer’s vision for the liturgy: ‘short’ services presented their texts efficiently and simply, while ‘verse’ services complicated proceedings with the addition of soloists and more intricate textures; ‘great’, or ‘full’, services extended this development to create musical structures of astonishing diversity, and at the very peak of the genre comes William Byrd’s masterpiece, widely regarded as the finest unaccompanied setting of the service ever made. The ‘Great’ Service is here presented in its correct liturgical order (with the inclusion of the frequently omitted Kyrie) and is complemented by six of Byrd’s finest anthems and two organ voluntaries from My Lady Nevells Booke, a collection of Byrd’s keyboard music put together in 1591. A second new recording from Westminster Abbey, ‘Trinity Sunday at Westminster Abbey’, is being released simultaneously on Hyperion CDA67557.
Rezensionen
'A very polished and confident performance. Quinney gives equally fluent renditions of the Voluntary and 'Fancie for My Lady Nevell', completing a disc that fulfils its brief with distinction' (Gramophone)
'This is one of Britain's best liturgical choirs...' (Early Music Magazine)
'This is a fine start of a new series' (Fanfare, USA)
'The Choir of Westminster Abbey revels in the score's complexity, animating the dialogues within its ten-part texture with clarity and conviction … this disc shows us clearly why the Great Service ranks as Byrd's definitive Anglican music' (BBC Music Magazine)
- Tracklisting
- Details
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 O Lord, make Thy servant Elizabeth The Queen
The great service (Auszug)
- 2 Venite
- 3 Te Deum
- 4 Benedictus
- 5 Kyrie
- 6 Creed
- 7 Prevent us, O Lord
My Ladye Nevells Booke (Auszug)
- 8 Voluntary
- 9 How long shall mine enemies?
The great service (Auszug)
- 10 Magnificat
- 11 Nunc dimittis
- 12 Out of the deep
My Ladye Nevells Booke (Auszug)
- 13 Fancy
- 14 Christ rising again from the dead
- 15 Sing joyfully
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