Music for the Duke of Lerma
Grand, late-Renaissance Spanish music in the ideal setting of Seville Cathedral
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Composer or Director: Anonymous, Mateo Romero, Philippe Rogier, Antonio de Cabezón, Johannes Urreda, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Alonso Lobo, Francisco Guerrero, Nicolas Gombert
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Archive Produktion
Magazine Review Date: 1/2003
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 112
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: 471 694-2AH2
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Cançión (untitled) a 6 |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Tientos IX (quinto tono) |
Antonio de Cabezón, Composer
Antonio de Cabezón, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Deus in adjutorium |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Antiphona I : Sacerdos in aeternum Christus |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Psalmus I : Dixit Dominus a 16 |
Mateo Romero, Composer
Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Mateo Romero, Composer Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Antiphona II : Miserator Dominus |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Confitebor Tibi |
Antonio de Cabezón, Composer
Antonio de Cabezón, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Antiphona III : Calicem salutaris accipiam |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Credidi |
Philippe Rogier, Composer
Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor Philippe Rogier, Composer |
Antiphona IV : Sicut novellae olivarum |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Beati omnes |
Antonio de Cabezón, Composer
Antonio de Cabezón, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Lauda Ierusalem |
Francisco Guerrero, Composer
Francisco Guerrero, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Fratres, ego enim accepi |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Pange lingua |
Johannes Urreda, Composer
Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Johannes Urreda, Composer Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Tiento para órgano |
Johannes Urreda, Composer
Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Johannes Urreda, Composer Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Antiphona V : Qui pacem ponit fines Ecclesiae |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Panem de caelo - Omne delectamentum |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Antiphona ad Magnificat |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Magnificat sexti toni |
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Composer
Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor Tomás Luis de Victoria, Composer |
Antiphona ad Magnificat: O quam suavis est, domine |
Alonso Lobo, Composer
Alonso Lobo, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Dominus vobiscum |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Benedicamus Domino |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Cançión a 6 (untitled) |
Philippe Rogier, Composer
Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor Philippe Rogier, Composer |
Cançión "Ecce sacerdos magnus" |
Philippe Rogier, Composer
Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor Philippe Rogier, Composer |
Cançión (untitled) |
Philippe Rogier, Composer
Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor Philippe Rogier, Composer |
Ego flos campi |
Alonso Lobo, Composer
Alonso Lobo, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Tiento I |
Antonio de Cabezón, Composer
Antonio de Cabezón, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Tu es Petrus |
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Composer
Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor Tomás Luis de Victoria, Composer |
Haec est domus - Bene fundata est |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Beatus es et bene tibi erit |
Francisco Guerrero, Composer
Francisco Guerrero, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Salve regina |
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Composer
Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor Tomás Luis de Victoria, Composer |
Ora pro nobis - Ut digni efficiamur |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Ora pro nobis - Omnipotens sempiterne Deus |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Benedicamus Domino - Deo dicamus gratias |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Mon seul |
Nicolas Gombert, Composer
Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Nicolas Gombert, Composer Paul McCreesh, Conductor |
Author: Tess Knighton
The first disc recreates a vespers service as it might have been celebrated during a royal visit such as that in October 1617; the second focuses on the music for the ‘Salve’ service, a well-established tradition in all the major cathedrals and churches of Spain which was generally solemnified by polyphonic or concerted music.
Based on the research of Douglas Kirk (who also plays a variety of wind instruments on the recording) into the music of Lerma and, in particular, on some extant manuscripts of music originally intended for use by the court instrumentalists as part of the liturgical ceremonies in the collegiate church, the selection of pieces and the manner of their performance will take some listeners by surprise. The importance of the role of purely instrumental music in Spanish churches is becoming ever clearer through recent research, but it is not, perhaps, until you hear the documentary and source evidence realised in sound, as it is on this superb recording, that this aspect of the late Renaissance soundworld is recreated for our ears.
Paul McCreesh and Kirk present the sequence of antiphons and psalms that comprise the vespers service with plainchant (often doubled at the lower octave and supported by the bajón or dulcian organ stops) alternating with different instrumental combinations. There is some evidence for this from Guerrero’s instructions to the instrumentalists of Seville Cathedral, though at that time he does not mention stringed instruments – which clearly did form part of the Lerma capilla – and it is less clear that there would have been verses played on solo harp, for example. The Gabrieli Consort are thus given the opportunity to show their considerable skills to the full, and the playing is of the highest standards enhanced by the excellent sound quality.
After this extended alternation of chant and instrumental verses, the large-scale vocal pieces make a tremendous impact: Victoria’s 12-voice Magnificat makes a dramatic intervention and is performed with compelling conviction, and the same can be said for his eight-voice setting of the Salve Regina on the second disc, the voices here being doubled by instruments.
McCreesh talks in the booklet notes of the rare occasions on which ‘musicians experience the joy of a building and its music being in such perfect harmony’ and, though it is all too easy to be influenced by the simple fact that this music is being performed and recorded in the building for which it was written, there is an undeniably special quality to these CDs. It offers an experience anyone interested in or attracted by Renaissance music will want to share.
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