Andrew Carwood, The Cardinall's Musick - Robert Parsons: Sacred Music (2011)
Andrew Carwood, The Cardinall's Musick - Robert Parsons: Sacred Music (2011)
EAC Rip | Flac (Tracks + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 286 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog Number: 67874
EAC Rip | Flac (Tracks + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 286 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog Number: 67874
Gramophone award-winning ensemble The Cardinall’s Musick return to another master of the Renaissance, Robert Parsons. Very few records remain of the composer’s short life, and his musical output is often overlooked, perhaps in the shadow of the prolific William Byrd, his successor as a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal. However, his vocal writing is some of the most opulent of the period.
The Cardinall’s Musick give sublime performances of some of the composer’s most sumptuous choral works, from the remarkably sophisticated Magnificat to the dramatic O bone Jesu. As demonstrated in their previous recordings, their resonant, pure-toned singing is the perfect advocate for such exquisite polyphony. The ensemble’s seemingly effortless and magical performance of the glorious Ave Maria is the perfect conclusion to an enlightening recording.
Composer: Robert Parsons
Conductor: Andrew Carwood
Orchestra/Ensemble: The Cardinall's Musick
Reviews: Any attention given to the music of English composer Robert Parsons (c1535-1572) is a good thing, and The Cardinall's Musick takes a good thing and makes it extraordinary, exploiting the richness of Parson's harmonies with a bright, focused, well-balanced sound. The 18-voice ensemble (among the voices are several veterans of The Sixteen) is an ideal number not only to convey the full measure of those extended waves of harmonies, but to sustain the long-spun melodic lines that weave through the supporting chordal structure.
To know Parson's music is to be immediately impressed with the composer's mastery of the essential forms of imitative writing, and with his rare facility for dramatic effect, especially powerful in his Latin works. Of course, the wonderful Ave Maria is deservedly his best-known work, but there are others here to rival that one: the relatively short (less than four minutes) Peccantem me quotidie, for five voices (no soprano), and the similarly scored Libera me, Domine (those marvelously vibrant chords–and those cross-relations!), the Credo quod redemptor (a good example of how Parsons, as he does most prominently in the Ave Maria, likes to create little catchy melodic figures and then repeats them over and over, but in such a way that you look forward to each repetition), and the masterpiece O bone Jesu.
Andrew Carwood and his Cardinall colleagues offer only the second CD program in the catalog devoted exclusively to Parsons' music (a fine Naxos recording with Voces Cantabiles is the other–type Q11409 in Search Reviews)–and because there is precious little of Parsons' output in existence, there is some overlap in the two programs, but not nearly enough to warrant owning one of these discs over the other. If you care about Parsons' work, you will definitely want both. And the sound on this one, from the favored venue of Britain's Fitzalan Chapel at Arundel Castle, is first rate. Don't let the rather stern visage of Queen Mary I on the cover deter or mislead you: the music and these performances welcome and uplift, invite and invigorate. Highly recommended.
Tracklisting:
01. Domine, quis habitabit? [5'12]
02. Peccantem me quotidie [3'44]
03. Holy Lord God Almighty [3'48]
04. Deliver me from mine enemies [2'39]
05. Retribue servo tuo [8'04]
06. Solemnis urgebat dies Iam Christus astra ascenderat [5'39]
07. Magnificat [13'15]
08. Libera me, Domine [7'31]
09. Credo quod redemptor [3'32]
10. O bone Jesu [11'42]
11. Ave Maria [4'56]
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