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Gombert - Tribulatio et Angustia (four & five-part motets) | Hyperion CDA67614

Gombert - Tribulatio et Angustia (four & five-part motets)

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA67614

Barcode: 0034571176147

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 28th August 2007

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Contents

Works

Gombert
Tribulatio et angustia

Gombert
Hortus conclusus es

Gombert
Aspice Domine

Gombert
Virgo sancta Katherina

Gombert
Inviolata

Gombert
Inviolata, integra, et casta es, Maria

Gombert
Ne reminiscaris, Domine

Gombert
Pater noster

Gombert
Ave Maria

Gombert
Ergone vitae

Gombert
Ave sanctissima Maria

Artists

Brabant Ensemble

Conductor

Stephen Rice

Works

Gombert
Tribulatio et angustia

Gombert
Hortus conclusus es

Gombert
Aspice Domine

Gombert
Virgo sancta Katherina

Gombert
Inviolata

Gombert
Inviolata, integra, et casta es, Maria

Gombert
Ne reminiscaris, Domine

Gombert
Pater noster

Gombert
Ave Maria

Gombert
Ergone vitae

Gombert
Ave sanctissima Maria

Artists

Brabant Ensemble

Conductor

Stephen Rice

About

This is The Brabant Ensemble’s third disc for Hyperion. Under their director, eminent musicologist Dr Stephen Rice, they continue to excavate jewels of the sixteenth-century choral repertoire which have until now remained underperformed and under-represented in music history. Their natural and instinctive performing style, which foregrounds the essential vocal qualities of this music, unlike the instrumental tone of other early music choirs, brings these beautiful and complex works abundantly to life.
 
Nicolas Gombert’s motets are the heart of his writing and this selection of them allows the range of his musical accomplishments to fully emerge. Often seen as written in penance for heinous crimes committed by the composer, many of them are settings of various texts of penitence, sorrow and yearning for deliverance from punishment.
 
Images such as the ‘hellish lake’ in Tribulatio et angustia are dramatically explored. Also on this disc are motets for the adulation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which surprisingly demonstrate an especially intensified and dissonant musical style, showing the almost erotic level of devotion suggested in some of the greatest art of this period.

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