Matthew Locke: Anthems,Motets,Ceremonial Music
Anthems,Motets,Ceremonial Music
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
Product-Information:
In this recording we have tried to reproduce the effect of performances in Oxford and London under the direction of the composer. We chose the relatively dry acoustic of Rosslyn Hill Chapel in Hampstead because Whitehall chapel was only about 75' by 30', and the music school at Oxford was even smaller. Male voices are used throughout; women began to sing in English choirs only in the 1770s. The normal practice in the Chapel Royal and at Oxford was to use one-to-a-part strings, but we have used orchestras in Be thou exalted, Lord and Descende caelo cincta sororibus because they were written for special occasions; the score of the former specifies a ‘band of violins’, and the surviving performing material of Oxford academic odes have duplicate string parts. These Oxford parts also reveal that bass stringed instruments played with the violins, leaving the solo vocal sections just to continuo instruments. A variety of continuo instruments were used on occasion at Oxford, including theorbos and plucked keyboards in addition to the music school organ, a four-stop Dallam instrument.
Rezensionen
'Stylishly performed and intelligently directed' (Early Music)
'La interpretación es excelente' (Scherzo, Spain)
Rezensionen
F.P. Messmer in FonoForum 2/91:"Den Musi- kern gelingt es, die Klangfülle und vor allem die berühmte Weichheit von Lockes Musik darzustellen. Der Wohlklang und die Schönheit dieser Musik sind außerordentlich. Hier kann nicht nur ein Komponist, sondern auch ein hervorragendes Ensemble entdeckt werden."- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
-
1 Descende caelo cincta sororibus "The Oxford Ode"
-
2 How doth the city sit solitary
-
3 Super flumina Babylonis
-
4 O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands
-
5 Audi Domine, clamantes ad te
-
6 Lord, let me know mine end
-
7 Jesu, auctor clementie
-
8 Be thou exalted, Lord
