in Choir & Organ (Jan, 2017)
Here are two versions, a half century apart, of Berkeley’s great Stabat Mater, a still underrated masterwork of modern British sacred music. The BBC version from 1965 has the slightly perfumed quality that was once thought appropriate to Berkeley’s Catholic vision, but which largely disappears on the Marian Consort’s vigorous new recording. The great joy of the Lyrita archive release is the powerful cantata Batter My Heart, Three Person’d God, based on the Donne poem and scored for soprano, chorus, oboe, horn, cellos, double bass and organ – an instrumentation that perfectly captures Berkeley’s rich but edgy tonality. The set is completed by the premiere recording of Magnificat for large …
Lennox Berkeley: Stabat Mater
Stabat mater (für 6 Singstimmen und Kammerorchester)
Stabat mater dolorosa
O quam tristis est afflicta
Quis est homo qui non fleret – Pro peccatis suæ gentis
Eia mater, fons amoris
Sancta mater, istud agas – Fac me tecum, pie, flere
Virgo virginum præclara – Fac me plagis vulnerari
Christe, cum sit hinc exire
Batter my heart three person’d God (Kantate)
Magnificat (für gemischten Chor, Orgel und Orchester)
Magnificat anima mea Dominum
Et misericordia eius – Fecit potentiam
Esurientes implevit bonis – Suscepit Israel
Sicut locutus est – Gloria Patri
Mary Thomas, Barbara Elsy, Maureen Lehane, Nigel Rogers, Ambrosian Singers, BBC Northern Singers, Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey Choir, Westminster Cathedral Choir, English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Norman del Mar, Lennox Berkeley
15,90€
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