The Sacred Flame - European Sacred Music of the Renaissance and Baroque Era

The Sacred Flame - European Sacred Music of the Renaissance and Baroque Era

by John RutterJohn Rutter

Overview

John Rutter conducts the Cambridge Singers and La Nuova Musica in this ravishing recording of European church music from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.

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.

The collection features familiar classics by Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Palestrina, and Schütz, as well as less widely-known masterpieces by Bach, Buxtehude, Hassler, and Sweelinck.

The Cambridge Singers are at their sensuous and virtuosic best and are joined here for the first time on disc by the instrumentalists of La Nuova Musica, one of the UK’s most exciting early music ensembles. From the Label

Product Details

Release Date: 05/05/2009
Label: Collegium
UPC: 0040888013426
catalogNumber: 134
Rank: 9117

Tracks

  1. Jubilate Deo, motet for 8 voices (1597)  (05:08)
  2. Beatus Vir (I), motet for 6 voices, 2 violins, 3 violas/trombones and continuo (from Seva morale e spirituale), SV 268  (08:32)
  3. Christe, adoramus te, motet for 5 voices, SV 293  (03:01)
  4. Cantate Domino canticum novum, motet, version for 6 voices, SV 292  (01:56)
  5. Sicut cervus, motet for 4 voices (from Motets Book II for 4 voices)  (03:15)
  6. Exsultate Deo, motet for 5 voices (from Motets Book V)  (02:12)
  7. Christus Factus Est, motet for 4 voices  (02:07)
  8. O vos omnes, responsory for 5 voices, W. 8/40  (03:36)
  9. Timor et tremor, motet for 6 voices, M. iii (S. xix/6)  (03:33)
  10. Ave verum corpus, motet for 6 voices, M. xiii (S. xiii/66)  (04:13)
  11. Laudate Dominum omnes gentes, motet for 5 voices & continuo (Cantiones Sacrae No. 11)  (02:55)
  12. Magnificat, for SSATB voices, 2 violins, 2 violas, violone & continuo, BuxWV Anh 1 (doubtful)  (08:06)
  13. Jesu, dulcis memoria, hymn for 4 voice (spurious)  (01:56)
  14. O vos omnes, responsory for 4 voices  (03:18)
  15. Crux fidelis, for 4 voices  (02:35)
  16. Ave Maria... virgo serena, motet for 4 parts  (06:07)
  17. Dixit Maria, for 4 voices  (02:20)
  18. Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt (Psalm 100) for double chorus & continuo, SWV 36 (Op. 2/15) (2 versions)  (04:23)
  19. Selig sind die Toten, motet for 2 sopranos, alto, 2 tenors, bass & continuo, SWV 391 (Op. 11/23)  (04:11)
  20. O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, motet for chorus & brass ("Cantata No. 118"), BWV 118a (BC B23a)  (04:51)

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