John Rutter directing the Cambridge Singers and La Nuova Musica
Anerio: Christus factus est/ Bach: O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht/ Buxtehude: Magnificat / Gabrieli: Jubilate Deo / Gesualdo: O vos omnes / Hassler: Dixit Maria / John IV of Portugal: Crux fidelis / Josquin Desprez: Ave Maria / Lassus: Ave verum Corpus; Timor et tremor / Monteverdi: Beatus vir; Cantate Domino; Christe, adoramus te / Palestrina: Exsultate Deo; Sicut cervus / Schütz: Psalm 100; Selig sind die Toten / Sweelinck: Laudate Dominum / Victoria: O vos omnes; Jesu, dulcis memoria
Not your Typical John Rutter CD, this recording delves into the choral masterpieces of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. The Cambridge Singers, under Rutter, perform with their usual excellence, while La Nuova Musica provides a subtle and appropriate musical bed. The final product is a greatest hits of Polyphony's greatest era. Some highlights not to be missed are Gabrieli's Jubilate Deo, Buxtehude's Magnificat, and Crux Fidelis by John IV, King of Portugal. A great listen for Renaissance and Choral fans alike!
Easter 2009 sees the release of a major new disc on Collegium from John Rutter, the Cambridge Singers and La Nuova Musica, featuring a collection of outstanding motets from the canon of European sacred choral repertoire.
Focusing on the extraordinary body of choral music produced for liturgical use during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, The Sacred Flame explores the rich and varied ways in which European composers responded to sacred texts. Delving into a treasure-trove of music from cultural centres as diverse as Amsterdam, Antwerp, Leipzig, Milan, Rome, and Venice, this collection features familiar classics by Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Palestrina and Schütz, as well as less widely-known masterpieces by Bach, Buxtehude, Hassler and Sweelinck. All are performed in stunning new recordings by the Cambridge Singers at their sensuous and virtuosic best, joined here for the first time on disc by the instrumentalists of La Nuova Musica, rapidly establishing areputation as one of the UK’s most exciting
early music ensembles.
All repertoire featured on The Sacred Flame is drawn from the enormously popular European Sacred Music collection edited by John Rutter for the Oxford University Press Oxford Choral Classics series. Recorded in the unparalleled acoustic of the Great Hall at University College School in London, and produced and engineered by award winning producer Simon Eadon, the performances of these much loved works heard on this disc are set to become definitive.
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Price: $25.98