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Ora - Refuge from the Flames: Miserere and the Savonarola Legacy (2016)

Posted By: LoveHive
Ora - Refuge from the Flames: Miserere and the Savonarola Legacy (2016)

Ora - Refuge from the Flames: Miserere and the Savonarola Legacy (2016)
Classical, Choral | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:17:47 | 179 MB
Label: Harmonia Mundi

Savonarola is one of those figures who is often regarded as a footnote in musical history, but I feel he is much more important than that, and the wide variety of composers throughout Europe who set his meditations and other texts is surely testament to this. We have devoted much of this album to his legacy, as well as presenting two diverse, yet cohesive, settings of the words of Psalm 50: Miserere mei one of the texts upon which Savonarola wrote a meditation shortly before being put to death. Allegri s nine-voice setting of this psalm is, of course, well known, but the scholar Ben Byram Wigfield has returned to the original manuscripts at the Vatican and other libraries and now presents us with an alternative to the version made popular in the twentieth century with something far closer to the origins of the music. I am hugely grateful for his research in this area and I think you will find the results revelatory. Ben expounds further on this in his invaluable liner notes to this recording. Over the past few years the Scottish composer James MacMillan s Miserere has increasingly been finding its way into the repertoire of several choirs and we are proud to present our version to conclude this recording. Going back to Savonarola, undoubtedly the greatest setting of his words by an Englishman is to be found in William Byrd s version of Infelix Ego. We have previously devoted a recording exclusively to sacred music by Byrd with a selection of British composers commissioned to reflect upon these works, but I felt that this emotional tour de force from the Cantiones Sacrae 1591 deserved to stand alone in Byrd s output, and it was from this point that the genesis of this particular recording began. To reflect on this extraordinary piece I knew I needed a composer with an equally strong individual compositional voice. My search took me to the Latvian riks E envalds, who has produced what I consider a new masterpiece, and something which I hope will endure in the same way as the setting of the great master Byrd. Suzi Digby OBE

Tracklist:
01. Miserere (Ben Byram Wigfield edit.)
02. Iesu, sommo conforto
03. Alma, che si gentile
04. Che fai qui, core?
05. Ecce quam bonum
06. Letamini in Domino
07. Infelix ego
08. Infelix ego after Byrd
09. O quam dulcis
10. Tristitia obsedit me, mango
11. Ecce quomodo moritur
12. Tristitia obsedit me, amici
13. Miserere