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Music from the Chapel Royal 'The King's Musick' (2006)

Music from the Chapel Royal 'The King's Musick' (2006)
ID: COR16041
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir

Brand new recording from The Sixteen (recorded in 2006) features new editions and world premiere recordings. It was largely through the efforts of "Captain" Henry Cooke (c.1615-1672) that the choir of the Chapel Royal was successfully restored at the Restoration in 1660. He invoked ancient press-gang legislation to purloin promising choirboys from cathedrals across the country. Two of them, Pelham Humfrey and John Blow, went on to write groundbreaking music.
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Music for Charles V - Holy Roman Emperor

Music for Charles V - Holy Roman Emperor
ID: SIGCD019
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir

Signum Records is delighted to present Chapelle du Roi’s eleventh release with the label. This recording offers a selection of music spanning the life and reign of Charles V, undoubtedly the most powerful man in 16th-century Europe, from his early teenage years to his death in 1558.

Charles was a devout Catholic, and maintained a chapel employing some of the most notable composers of the period, including Nicolas Gombert and Thomas Crecquillon, who Charles referred to as ‘the truest Opheus of the age’. Closely identified with the Order of the Golden Fleece, which gave rise to the L’homme armé tradition, Charles V was said to have a musical ear. A great deal of music survives that is associated directly with him and his patronage - a selection of which is presented on this recording.

The music composed for rulers frequently mixed the heavenly with the secular, and a great many pieces were written to celebrate political conquests and occasions within the court. For example, Cristóbal Morales possibly wrote his Missa L'homme armé as an offering for Charles’s wedding to Isabella of Portugal.

Near the end of Charles’s reign, the young composer Orlandus Lassus was just starting his career, and seeking preferment. He offered his secular motet, Heroum Soboles to Charles in the hope that he would join the prestigious Capilla Flamenca. He was unsuccessful, however Charles’s minister, Bishop Granvelle of Arras helped Lassus to secure his position at the court of Duke Albrecht of Bavaria - a musical establishment that was no less magnificent.

The last years of Charles life were troubled by his failure to convert the Protestants back into the Roman Catholic Church, and to lead a universal Catholic empire. His death resounded throughout the Empire, and Don Fernando de las Infantas marked his passing with a setting of Parce Mihi Domine, the best-known of the texts from Matins pro defunctis.
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Vivald: Gloria in D major / Bach: Magnificat in D major - The Sixteen - H. Christophers

Vivald: Gloria in D major / Bach: Magnificat in D major - The Sixteen - H. Christophers
ID: COR16042
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Baroque

About this title: The small British chorus called the Sixteen and director Harry Christophers have delivered consistently popular recordings of Renaissance and Baroque music, maintaining very high standards of performance. Here they couple two of the most popular Baroque works of all, Vivaldi's Gloria in D major, RV 589, and Bach's Magnificat in D major, BWV 243, and the results are handsome indeed. The tenor of the performances flows from the conceptions of each work that Christophers expresses in one of the little personal essays that appears at the beginning of each booklet in this series: Vivaldi, he said, is "effective," and even operates in places here "at his simplest," while Bach is "complex." Some would use other words first, for each composer -- daring or kinetic for Vivaldi, devotional or a dozen other words for Bach. There are recordings that give Vivaldi in general and the Gloria in particular more of an edge; there are recordings of Bach that seem warmer, or more rooted in the sacred texts.
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Fedel e Costante - Handel Italian Cantatas - Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano

Fedel e Costante - Handel Italian Cantatas - Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano
ID: COR16045
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Choir

Recorded live at The Sixteen's Handel in Oxford Festival, 2006, Elin Manahan Thomas gives a performance of captivating communication and sparkling intelligence in these stunning and contrasting Handel Cantatas, bringing to life the world of four women, all of whom have been betrayed by love and its deceitful charms.

Agrippina, sister of Caligula and wife of Claudius, vacillates from fiery monarch in outrage to a tender mother appalled by her son's weakness. At the last, she resigns herself to a noble death at the hands of her cruel, ignoble son. Nel dolce dell' oblio descries the sweet oblivion of sleep as the beloved Fili lies dreaming of her darling. Tu fedel, Tu Costante has the singer berating her beloved, Fileno, for his philandering ways as he loves a hundred beauties and wishes to share himself with them all. In the last aria she decides either to love another, or to live entirely with out love henceforth. Armida abbandonata tells a tale of desperate, unrequited love. When the Saracen witch Armida falls in love with captured warrior Rinaldo, Armida bewitches him to love her in return but eventually her spell fails and Rinaldo returns to his ship and abandons her.
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Music From the Sistine Chapel - Allegri, Anerio, Palestrina, Marenzio

Music From the Sistine Chapel - Allegri, Anerio, Palestrina, Marenzio
ID: COR16047
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir

Recorded in November 2006, this disc offers a fascinating collection of works written for the Papal Chapel. Researched and sung by one of the world's leading choirs, The Sixteen and Harry Christophers, this recording includes many world premiere recordings of these rarely heard sacred works. Felice Anerio displays a fluid mastery of the Roman style of composition, and some of his surviving settings are shown to advantage here, in particular his glorious twelve-part setting of Stabat Mater, more ambitious and possibly more beautiful than those by Palestrina and Lassus. Gregorio Allegri is famous for his Miserere (available on coro as cor16014); this recording contains representative examples of his polyphonic style. Together with settings by the towering figure of Palestrina, all receive warm and vital performances.
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Music from Magdalen - Sheppard, Mason, Davy

Music from Magdalen - Sheppard, Mason, Davy
ID: COR16049
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir

Magdalen College, Oxford, was a centre of excellence in the sixteenth century, with three of the era’s greatest composers holding the position of Master of the Choristers during a prolific period of English music.
Harry Christophers presents the unique Magdalen sound in sublime music from these composers, performed by The Magdalen Collection, all previous academical clerks of Magdalen College, Oxford.
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Ein Deutsches Requiem - J. Brahms - The Sixteen - H. Christophers, conductor

Ein Deutsches Requiem - J. Brahms - The Sixteen -  H. Christophers, conductor
ID: COR16050
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir

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Hilliard Live Vol. 2 - For Ockeghem - Hilliard Ensemble

Hilliard Live Vol. 2 - For Ockeghem -  Hilliard Ensemble
ID: COR16048
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Sacred Music

The second in a series of four Hilliard Ensemble collections on CORO, with beautiful artwork. The Hilliard LIVE Series was originally produced by the BBC for lobby sale at Hilliard concert events and has never previously been available commercially. The ensemble, founded in 1974, is one of the world's finest vocal chamber ensembles, unrivalled for its formidable reputation in the fields of both old and new music. The group's performing schedule is varied, amounting to about a hundred concerts a year. Its substantial following in Europe is augmented by regular visits to Japan, the US, and Canada

Language: Latin

The Hilliard Ensemble is one of the world's finest vocal chamber groups, and is probably unrivalled for its formidable reputation in the fields of both early and new music. This series was only previously available direct from the group but has never before been fully available at international retail.
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Robert Carver - Master of the Scottish Renaissance

Robert Carver - Master of the Scottish Renaissance
ID: COR16051
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Renaissance
Subcollection: Choir

The massive granite-like choral writing of early sixteenth-century Scottish choral music is here displayed in Carver’s magnificent nineteen-voice votive antiphon O bone Jesu, written for James IV King of Scots. The large-scale Missa Dum sacrum mysterium with its sumptuous polyphony may well have been sung at the coronation of James V in 1513.
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C0NTRASTS

C0NTRASTS
ID: ACDHN034w-2
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir

3 - Soloist: Rudmer de Vries, tenor
6, 7 - Noriko Yabe, piano
14 - Soloists: Rudmer de Vries, tenor / Bauke Hoekstra, bass

Cantatrix is an ensemble aiming for the highest level of choral singing. In their first cd the singers present their group in a programme of mainly contemporary music. The principal characteristic of the repertoire in this recording is a high degree of variety, resulting in - you guessed - contrasts.
Frits Ham.
Elgar, Mäntyjärvy, Biebl, Whitacre, Vermeeren, Lauridsenen, Gorecki.
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