Cifra - The Loreto Vespers
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Label: Christophorus
Cat No: CHR77321
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 10th January 2011
Contents
Artists
Ensemble OfficiumConductor
Wilfried RombachAbout
Cifra was a prolific composer, with 45 separate publications to his credit - psalms, motets, litanies, "Scherzi sacri", masses, polychoral motets and sacred songs, as well as secular music including madrigals in both the Renaissance a cappella and Baroque concertato forms.
Stylistically, Cifra's music varies between masses in the Palestrina style, with much use of homophony (as desired by the Counter-Reformation Council of Trent, which had required that polyphonic elaboration be minimised), and more progressive works in the Venetian style. He was also one of the few composers to be influenced by the extreme chromaticism of Carlo Gesualdo.
The psalms and motets for 12 voices, published in Venice in the year of his death, and presented in this recording as Vesperae Lauretanae, reveal Cifra’s mature late style.
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