Palestrina - Missa sine nomine a 6, Motets | Toccata Classics TOCC0516

Palestrina - Missa sine nomine a 6, Motets

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0516

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 1st March 2019

Contents

Artists

Choir of Girton College, Cambridge
Historic Brass of the Guildhall School and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Jeremy West (leader)
James Mitchell (organ)
Lucy Morrell (organ)

Conductor

Gareth Wilson

Works

Ingegneri, Marc Antonio

Duo Seraphim clamabant
Lauda Sion Salvatorem
Super flumina Babylonis

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da

Accepit Jesus calicem
Deus qui dedisti
Judica me, Deus
Missa sine nomine a 6
Ricercar octavi toni
Ricercar quarti toni
Tu es Petrus
Unus ex duobus

Artists

Choir of Girton College, Cambridge
Historic Brass of the Guildhall School and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Jeremy West (leader)
James Mitchell (organ)
Lucy Morrell (organ)

Conductor

Gareth Wilson

About

Renaissance polyphony is generally held to be stately, calm, reassuring. But this programme of Palestrina’s six-part Missa sine nomine, complemented by five of his motets and three by Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (c.1535/36–92), was recorded after the Choir of Girton College, Cambridge, had undertaken a tour of Israel and Palestine. There the music and its texts (‘How can we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?’) took on an extraordinary poignancy, with the dispossession and desperation of thousands of years ago animating the restrained dignity of Palestrina’s counterpoint with an unexpectedly topical intensity.

Gareth Wilson studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, the University of Edinburgh, and the Royal Academy of Music in London, receiving the DipRAM for an outstanding final recital. He became a Fellow there, and subsequently lecturer, in Academic Studies between 2000 and 2004. At the same time, he joined the staff of the Music Department of King’s College, London (KCL), and, in 2012, was appointed an academic professor at the Royal College of Music. In 2014 he was appointed Acting Director of the Chapel Choir of KCL, and in summer 2015 he was appointed Director of Chapel Music and Bye-Fellow at Girton College in the University of Cambridge, where he is also a member of the Music Faculty, lecturing in fugue studies.

Girton College Chapel Choir has gained an impressive reputation as one of the most distinguished mixed-voice choirs at the University of Cambridge. As an international prize-winning ensemble comprising around 26 students, it has built its reputation through regular choral services in Girton College chapel and frequent performances in parish churches and cathedrals across the UK. Choir members are all undergraduate or graduate students at Cambridge University. The choir also undertakes tours overseas at least once a year; recent ventures have included concerts in Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland.

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