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Composer: WEELKES, Thomas ((1576-1623)) |
| His/her music: Weelkes most famous composition was his English anthem "When David Heard". This introduced a new depth of emotion into music and represented a major musical innovation. The sighing quality of the "oh's" in all six parts add to the emotional intensity of the music. The haunting themes and overtones create a powerful emotional sensation that culminates in the lines "would God I had died for thee".
(Contribution by William McBeath <wmcbeath
telusplanet.net>.)
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ID: BRIL92098 CDs: 1 Type: DVD5 |
Collection: Choral Collection Subcollection: Choir 1 DVD 16:9
Region: (All) PAL, 2.35:1 ALL FORMATS
Sound Tracks: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Stereo 5.1 |
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ID: DCD34070 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Sacred Music Thomas Weelkes is remembered as one of the outstanding English composers of the 17th century. This survey of Weelkes' services, verse anthems and sacred madrigals features first recordings of several works in new reconstructions by scholar Peter James. Benjamin Nicholas' Tewkesbury choir delivers telling performances passionately conveying the range, imagination and technical accomplishment of Weelkes' settings.
Weelkes:
O Jonathan
Rejoice in the Lord
Te Deum & Jubilate (Eighth Service)
O how amiable are thy dwellings
Christ rising again
When David Heard
Laboravi in gemitu meo
Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Third Service 'in F fa ut')
O vos omnes
Lord, to Thee I make my moan, anthem for 5 voices
Give ear, O Lord
All people clap your hands
Hosanna to the Son of David
Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas & Carleton Etherington |
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ID: DCD34072 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Choir Founded as recently as 2008, the new Choir of Merton College, Oxford is rapidly emerging as a major force in collegiate choral music. On this, their debut recording, the choir’s two directors helm a diverse programme that reflects the range and reach of the choir’s daily repertoire. Bookended by two pieces titled In the Beginning Gabriel Jackson’s ravishing version of the rarely-set Johannine Prologue, Copland’s glowing account of the first seven days of creation - this disc offers a themed sequence of Renaissance and modern classics, all captured in sumptuous sound in the radiant acoustics of Merton’s famous chapel.
Copland:
In the Beginning
Gombert:
Lugebat David Absalon 8vv
Holst:
Nunc dimittis, H127
Jackson, Gabriel:
In the Beginning was the Word
Lukaszewski:
Nunc dimittis
Palestrina:
Nunc dimittis
Weelkes:
When David Heard
Whitacre:
When David Heard
Beth Mackay (mezzo-soprano) & Natasha Tyrwhitt-Drake (organ scholar)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas & Peter Phillips (conductors) |
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ID: RES10146 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Vocal Ensemble The Queen's Six - Daniel Brittain & Timothy Carleston (countertenors), Nicholas Madden & Dominic Bland (tenors), Andrew Thompson & Simon Whiteley (basses)
The Queen’s Six releases their debut album with a sumptuous selection of music from the golden age of English polyphony.
Recorded in the extraordinary surroundings of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle - where each member of The Queen’s Six is a Lay Clerk - Music of the Realm features six composers associated with the royal court of Queen Elizabeth I, from whom the group gets its name.
For their first Resonus album the group have selected a programme of both well and lesser-known works by six composers who wrote music for and during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I - William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Weelkes, Thomas Morley and Orlando Gibbons. The recording is accompanied by an essay from early music scholar and conductor, Peter Phillips.
'They bring seamless blend and balance to music from the reign of Elizabeth I, from whom they take their name.'
The Observer |
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ID: RES10164 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Renaissance Subcollection: Choir The Queen's Six - Daniel Brittain & Timothy Carleston (countertenors), Nicholas Madden & Dominic Bland (tenors), Andrew Thompson & Simon Whiteley (basses)
Following on from their acclaimed debut album (Music of the Realm - RES10146), a capella vocal sextet The Queen’s Six return with a captivating exploration of secular jewels by the same six composers associated with the Tudor and Jacobean royal courts featured on that earlier recording - Thomas Tomkins, William Byrd, Thomas Morley, Thomas Weelkes, William Byrd & Thomas Tallis.
Themes as diverse as royalty, balletts, birds, the natural world, dedications and love & death serve to celebrate the immense range of this golden age of English music.
Following the critical acclaim of their debut album ‘Music of the Realm’, The Queen’s Six return to Resonus with a programme of secular madrigals from the same six English Renaissance composers all associated with the royal court of Queen Elizabeth I, from whom the group take their name.
Entitled ‘Her Heavenly Harmony: Profane Music from the Royal Court’, The Queen’s Six present a recital of well- and lesser-known works by Morley, Weelkes, Tomkins, Byrd, Tallis and Gibbons, with various themes of ‘Royalty’, ‘Planets’, ‘Ballets’, ‘Birds and Flowers’, ‘Dedications’ and ‘Love and Death’. |
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ID: RKAP10106 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Renaissance Subcollection: Voices Works by Thomas Morley, Orlande de Lassus, John Dowland, Cipriano de Rore, Ludwig Senfl, Scottish Anonymous, Thomas Weelkes, Adrian Willaert, Heinrich Isaac, Pierre Passereau, Hans [1] Leo Hassler, John [Composer] Bennet, King of England Henry VIII, Adriano Banchieri, Antonio Scandello, Juan del Encina, Josquin Desprez, Canciero de Montecassino Anonymous, Jacques Arcadelt, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi
Track Listing
1. Now is the month of maying, madrigal for 5 voices
2. Bon jour et puis quelles nouvelles, chanson for 5 voices, B. xi/60 (S. xvi/53)
3. Bon jour mon Coeur (Ronsard) (Christ est mon Dieu), chanson for 4 voices, B. xi/68 (S. xii/100)
4. Come away come sweet love, for 4 voices & lute (First Book of Songs)
5. Anchor che col partire, madrigal
6. Ach Elslein, liebes Elselein
7. Remember me my deir (Robert Edwards' Commonplace Book)
8. Since Robin Hood, madrigal for 3 voices
9. Strike it up tabor, madrigal for 3 voices
10. Vecchie letrose non valete niente, canzona for 4 voices
11. Innsbruck, ich muß dich lassen (ii), song for 4 voices
12. I love, alas, I love thee, madrigal for 5 voices
13. Il est bel et bon, commere, mon mary (Chansons musicales, Paris 1534)
14. Come again, sweet love doth now invite, for 4 voices & lute (First Book of Songs)
15. Mein G'müt ist mir verwirret
16. Weep, O mine Eyes (from Madrigals to four voyces)
17. Pastyme with Good Companye for 3 voices
18. Contrapunto Bestiale
19. Ein Hennlein weiss, song
20. Cucú, cucú, cucúcu, cancionero (from Cancionero de Palacio)
21. Fata la parte
22. El grillo, song for 4 parts
23. Dindirindin, canzon alla villota, CM 127
24. Il bianco e dolce cigno, madrigal for 4 voices, S. 2/18
25. La bellezza, madrigal for 5 voices
26. Triste depart
27. Mille regretz, song for 4 parts
28. Pavane, "Belle qui tiens ma vie"
29. La tricotea, madrigal
30. Gentil senora mia
31. Chi la gagliarda (All Ye Who Music Love), madrigal
32. Quand je bois du vin clairet, madrigal
33. Das Gläut zu Speyer (The Merry Bells of Speyer), for winds |
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ID: RRC2030 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Choral Collection 35 anthems in date order inc. 4 by Byrd, 3 by Tallis, 2 each by Gibbons Weelkes
and Tomkins, 1 each by Farmer, van Wilder, Tye, Sheppard, Farrant, Blow, 4 by
Purcell, 2 each by Ouseley and Wesley, 1 each by Croft, Greene, Boyce,
Battishill, Attwood and Stainer. |
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ID: SIGCD061 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Choir Signum Classics are proud to release the fourth disc from The King's Singers on Signum Classics - 1605: Treason and Dischord. On 5 November 1605 Guy Fawkes was caught preparing to detonate 36 barrels of gunpowder under the House of Lords unveiling an act of attempted treason that shocked the whole of Europe. What led a group of young Catholic men to risk their lives for their faith? 400 years later the King’s Singers and Concordia illuminate the dangers of hearing Mass in secret, of conspiracy and downfall, and of protestant relief and celebration, through a project of music and prose. The music, structured around Byrd’s perfect 4-part Mass, contains motets by Catholic composers, balanced with protestant anthems celebrating the downfall of the plot, and a commission from the British composer, Francis Pott. Master Tresham: His Ducke reflects on the ‘9/11’ of its day - 5/11/1605. The script, drawing on historic texts and written by Deborah Mackay for the quatercentenary concert series related to this CD, uses the dramatized persona of William Byrd, the most famous composer of his age, to recreate the atmosphere of change and hope in the Jacobean court. |
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ID: SIGCD082 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Choir A collection of 25 madrigals from 23 different composers - from the famous to the obscure - make up this Elizabethan curiosity, published in 1601 by Thomas Morley. A musical dedication to Queen Eliyabeth 1, The Triumohs of Oriana displays the talents of English songwriters, long overshadowed by their European counterparts, conjuring up an image of an idealised and mythical England of old. |
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