Gibbons Choral and Organ Music
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Composer or Director: Orlando Gibbons
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Naxos
Magazine Review Date: 8/1996
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 65
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 8 553130
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| O clap your hands |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Jeremy Summerly, Conductor Orlando Gibbons, Composer Oxford Camerata |
| Great King of Gods (Lord of Lords) |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Jeremy Summerly, Conductor Orlando Gibbons, Composer Oxford Camerata |
| Hosanna to the Son of David |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Jeremy Summerly, Conductor Orlando Gibbons, Composer Oxford Camerata |
| Prelude |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Laurence Cummings, Organ Orlando Gibbons, Composer |
| Out of the deep |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Jeremy Summerly, Conductor Orlando Gibbons, Composer Oxford Camerata |
| See, see, the word is incarnate |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Jeremy Summerly, Conductor Orlando Gibbons, Composer Oxford Camerata |
| (4) Preludes, Movement: No. 3 in D minor, MBXX/3 |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Laurence Cummings, Organ Orlando Gibbons, Composer |
| Lift up your heads |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Jeremy Summerly, Conductor Orlando Gibbons, Composer Oxford Camerata |
| Almighty and everlasting God |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Jeremy Summerly, Conductor Orlando Gibbons, Composer Oxford Camerata |
| First (Short) Service, Movement: Magnificat |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Jeremy Summerly, Conductor Orlando Gibbons, Composer Oxford Camerata |
| First (Short) Service, Movement: Nunc dimittis |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Jeremy Summerly, Conductor Orlando Gibbons, Composer Oxford Camerata |
| Second (Verse) Service, Movement: Magnificat |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Jeremy Summerly, Conductor Orlando Gibbons, Composer Oxford Camerata |
| Second (Verse) Service, Movement: Nunc dimittis |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Jeremy Summerly, Conductor Orlando Gibbons, Composer Oxford Camerata |
| Fantasia |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Laurence Cummings, Organ Orlando Gibbons, Composer |
| O God, the king of glory |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Jeremy Summerly, Conductor Orlando Gibbons, Composer Oxford Camerata |
| O Lord, in thy wrath rebuke me not |
Orlando Gibbons, Composer
Jeremy Summerly, Conductor Orlando Gibbons, Composer Oxford Camerata |
Author: mberry
The Oxford Camerata continue their popular series of recordings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English music with this representative selection of choral works by Orlando Gibbons, together with three of his organ pieces. The programme is introduced by a bright and busy performance of the eight-part O clap your hands, followed by the noble verse anthem Great Lord of Lords – and I was pleased to hear in this piece, and in the other verse-anthems, the rich timbre of the countertenor Robin Blaze, a welcome acquisition for the Camerata. In fact the group has a great deal of vocal talent in its make-up and is strengthening its reputation all the time. They tackled the gently moving See, see, the word is incarnate with great confidence, and the two services and the quiet collects with all the knowledge and aplomb of cathedral lay clerks or choral scholars from Oxford and Cambridge. We cannot of course tell what King’s or Westminster Abbey would have sounded like in Gibbons’s day, but this is very much the sound of an Oxbridge choir today.
Laurence Cummings plays two short preludes, the one in G – a test of agility – from Parthenia and that in D minor from Benjamin Cosyn’sVirginal Book. The Fantazia of four parts is an extraordinary work, quite hard to steady and control. Nevertheless, it was a welcome addition to the programme. At a budget price, this CD is worth every penny.'
Laurence Cummings plays two short preludes, the one in G – a test of agility – from Parthenia and that in D minor from Benjamin Cosyn’s
Gibbons Choral and Organ Music
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