The Sacred Flame (2009)
performed by
Amy Haworth (soprano), Amy Moore (soprano), Ben Breakwell (tenor), Gabriel Crouch (bass), Grace Davidson (soprano), James Halliday (bass), Katherine Hill (soprano), La Nuova Musica, Melanie Marshall (alto), Thomas Hobbs (tenor)
composed by
Carlo Gesualdo, Claudio Monteverdi, Dietrich Buxtehude, Felice Anerio, Giovanni Gabrieli, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Hans Leo Hassler, Heinrich Schütz, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Joâo IV of Portugal, Johann Sebastian Bach, Josquin Des Prez
John Rutter's handpicked Cambridge Singers have lately been more often deployed in his own music, but Rutter originally formed the group to perform monuments of Renaissance sacred music like those heard on this release. The singers, adult and mixed in gender, mostly emerged from the choral groups of prominent English universities and cathedrals, but Rutter has certainly put his own stamp on them. His performances of Renaissance works tend to make them sound like his own music, with a sunny, slightly soprano-heavy sound ...
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John Rutter's handpicked Cambridge Singers have lately been more often deployed in his own music, but Rutter originally formed the group to perform monuments of Renaissance sacred music like those heard on this release. The singers, adult and mixed in gender, mostly emerged from the choral groups of prominent English universities and cathedrals, but Rutter has certainly put his own stamp on them. His performances of Renaissance works tend to make them sound like his own music, with a sunny, slightly soprano-heavy sound (there are 12 sopranos and only seven or eight singers on the other voice parts) clear articulation of the texts and the polyphony, and a certain piety. The program here extends forward into the Baroque with Bach and Buxtehude, not with notable success, but many of the Renaissance standards are very appealing. Consider the setting of O vos omnes by Carlo Gesualdo (track 8), for which the O vos omnes by Victoria (track 13) provides a useful foil. The bright sound of Rutter's singers...
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- Jubilate Deo, motet for 8 voices (1597), C. 16
- Beatus Vir (I), motet for 6 voices, 2 violins, 3 violas/trombones and continuo (from Seva morale e spirituale), SV 268
- Christe, adoramus te, motet for 5 voices, SV 294
- Cantate Domino canticum novum, motet, version for 6 voices, SV 293
- Sicut cervus, motet for 4 voices (from Motets Book II for 4 voices)
- Exsultate Deo, motet for 5 voices (from Motets Book V)
- Christus Factus Est, motet for 4 voices
- O vos omnes, responsory for 5 voices, W. 8/40
- Timor et tremor, motet for 6 voices, M. iii (S. xix/6)
- Ave verum corpus, motet for 6 voices, M. xiii (S. xiii/66)
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes, motet for 5 voices & continuo (Cantiones Sacrae No. 11)
- Magnificat, for SSATB voices, 2 violins, 2 violas, violone & continuo, BuxWV Anh 1 (doubtful)
- Jesu, dulcis memoria, hymn for 4 voice (spurious)
- O vos omnes, responsory for 4 voices
- Crux fidelis, for 4 voices
- Ave Maria... virgo serena, motet for 4 parts
- Dixit Maria, for 4 voices
- Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt (Psalm 100) for double chorus & continuo, SWV 36 (Op. 2/15) (2 versions)
- Selig sind die Toten, motet for 2 sopranos, alto, 2 tenors, bass & continuo, SWV 391 (Op. 11/23)
- O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, motet for chorus & brass ("Cantata No. 118"), BWV 118a (BC B23a)
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