Byrd - Cantiones Sacrae
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Label: Chandos - Chaconne
Cat No: CHAN0733
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 2nd April 2007
Contents
Works
Cantiones Sacrae I (1589)Artists
The Choir of Trinity College, CambridgeConductor
Richard MarlowWorks
Cantiones Sacrae I (1589)Artists
The Choir of Trinity College, CambridgeConductor
Richard MarlowAbout
Chandos - William Byrd’s Cantiones Sacrae 1589 & 1591.
Composers in mainland Europe – Palestrina, for example, wrote a steady stream of Latin motets and had them
published in mass-market editions but Byrd was the first English composer to do the same. After the Latin liturgy
was abolished by mid-sixteenth-century reformers, there was an understandable lack of demand for Latin sacred
music among professional singers in England, when the motet resurfaced there, it did so as high-class chamber
music for discerning performers, not as practical church music: Byrd's motets were therefore serious in mood,
though were intended as vocal chamber music for domestic performance.
an innovator in form and technique in his liturgical work. H.K. Andrews described them as 'musically one of the
great achievements of the century'. Both volumes of Cantiones sacrae, Book I (29 motets) written in 1589, Book II
32 motets) in 1591 are a testament to Byrd’s artistic talent. It would be difficult to find another Renaissance
composer who managed to unite such a high level of technical skill with such deep insight into the varieties of
human emotion, and the pieces on this CD offer a sampling of his art.
more important. "The performances are robust yet sensitive… and the recorded sound is sumptuous. This is a triumph for Marlow and his Trinity College Choir…" International Record Review on Mendelssohn Sacred Choral Works
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