New Classical CDs - ensemble amarcord: Hear the Voice (CD)

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Ave verum corpus

Hear the voice and prayer

If ye love me

O salutaris hostia

Tenebrae

ensemble amarcord: Hear the Voice (CD)

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"Hear the voice" is not just the line of a prayer appearing several times on this CD, but also an appeal to the listeners –– to listen between the lines, to hear the centuries between the lives of the various composers, between them and us, to hear the links between their styles of composition, the subtle nuances with which certain words are interpreted by sounds. This all calls for more careful attention than simple "listening". The musical journey starts in France, before taking us back half a millennium to the Flemish region with Luther as our guide. Then there's a little detour to the Iberian Peninsula, a trip to the British Isles, before we finally return to amarcord's native skies in present-day Germany. "they perform with an understanding and authority that is unmistakable .... Highly eloquent and moving" - American Record Guide August 2002

Song List:
THOMAS TALLIS (ca. 1505 - 1585): If ye love me
Hear the voice and prayer
FRANCIS POULENC (1899 - 1963): Quatre petites priers de Saint François d'Assise
RUDOLF MAUERSBERGER (1889 - 1971): Herr, lehre doch mich
De profundis
DARIUS MILHAUD (1892 - 1974): Psaume 121
MARCUS LUDWIG (*1960): Tenebrae
WILLIAM BYRD (1543 - 1623): Ave verum corpus
CARL ORFF (1895 - 1982): Sunt lacrimae rerum
JOSQUIN DES PREZ (ca. 1440 - 1521): Magnus es tu, Domine (secunda pars: Tu pauperum refugium)
PIERRE DE LA RUE (ca. 1460 - 1518): O salutaris hostia
PETER CORNELIUS (1824 - 1874): Ach, wie nichtig, ach, wie flüchtig