Mixed Groups - Tenebrae (Nigel Short): Allegri Miserere: Tavener, Kodaly, Lotti & More (CD)

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Tenebrae (Nigel Short): Allegri Miserere: Tavener, Kodaly, Lotti & More (CD)

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Featuring works by Taverner, Holst, Rachmaninov, Lotti, Ireland, Harris, Briten and Kodaly.
Allegri's haunting Miserere is the central point in a journey through music of longing and entreaty, hope and faith. These works spanning the centuries are chosen from the heart of Tenebrae's concert repertoire.
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Format:CD
Year Released/Length: 2006, 71:03
Style/Genre:Classical a cappella
Voicing: Mixed classical ensemble
A cappella?: Mostly (1 piece w/organ)
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Song List:
Song for Athene (Tavener, a cappella)
Ex ore innocentium (John Ireland, organ accomp.)
The Lamb (John Tavener, a cappella)
Hymn to the Cherubim (Sergei Rachmaninov, a cappella)
Now ye heavenly powers (Count Alexander Sheremetiev, a cappella)
Hymn to St. Cecilia (Benjamin Britten, a cappella)
Ave Maria (Pawel Lukaszewski, a cappella)
8-Part Cruxifixus (Antonio Lotti, a cappella)
Miserere (Gregorio Allegri, a cappella)
Esti Dal (Zoltan Kodaly, a cappella)
The Dying Soldier (Trad., arr. Nigel Short, a cappella)
Psalm 148, Lord who has made us for Thine own (Gustav Holst, a cappella)
Faire is the Heaven (William Henry Harris, a cappella)
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From the record label's web site:
" From choral 'hits' to the less well known, Tenebrae are on top form ... Once again, Tenebrae and their director, Nigel Short, have put together a programme that ranges from the Renaissance to the 21st century, from the neglected to the familiar, with no sense of strain" - Barry Witherden, Gramophone
" ... vibrant and incisive" - International Record Review
"Nigel Short and Tenebrae have just the right balance of control and passion, reverence and exuberance that makes for such a superb performance" - The Organ
"The disc ends with that locus classicus of English choral singing, Faire is the Heaven, in which one would be forgiven for thinking Spenser's final words,'such endlesse perfectnesse' refer to the choir themselves rather than the state of Heaven" - BBC Music Magazine

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