Antoine Brumel: From Darkness Into Light: The complete Lamentations of Jeremiah for Good Friday

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This performance imagines them being sung in a 16th-century nunnery, so Brumel’s original low-voice scoring is transposed for female singers, with an organ and a viol providing lower parts. The... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 1st Nov 2019
Catalogue No: CD719
Label: Obsidian Records
Length: 73 minutes

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Brumel, A: Heth, cogitavit

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Claire Williams (organ), Alison Kinder (viola)
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Brumel, A: Joth (Sederunt in terra) [Arr. for Treble Chorus, Viol & Organ]

Work length8:16

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Brumel, A: Lamed (Matribus suis dixerunt) [Arr. for Treble Chorus, Viol & Organ]

Work length7:04

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Brumel, A: Nun (Prophetæ tui viderunt) [Arr. for Treble Chorus, Viol & Organ]

Work length12:34

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Brumel, A: Gimel (Circumædificavit adversum me) [Arr. for Treble Chorus, Viol & Organ]

Work length8:12

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anon.: Ave Maris Stella

Work length5:00

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Claire Williams (organ), Alison Kinder (viola)
Musica Secreta

Josquin: Recordare, virgo mater

Work length4:59

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Moro, A: Sancta Maria succurre miseris

Work length2:36

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anon.: Jesus autem cum ieiunasset

Work length1:58

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anon.: Multiplicati sunt qui tribulant me

Work length1:49

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Compère: Paranymphus salutat virginem

Work length3:14

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anon.: Verbum caro factum est

Work length4:35

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anon.: Salve Regina

Work length6:59

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Interview, Laurie Stras on Brumel's Lamentations

5th November 2019

Musicologist and conductor Laurie Stras talks to David about her new album From Darkness into Light, which includes the first recording of Brumel's Lamentations - rediscovered by Stras after having been thought largely lost.

Based on a major new discovery, this recording features the complete setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah for Good Friday by Antoine Brumel, one of the most celebrated composers of the Renaissance. Brumel’s Lamentations have been known, performed, and recorded for many years in a much abbreviated form of two verses and the refrain, “Jerusalem, convertere.” The additional seventeen verses, which were found hiding in plain sight in a sixteenth-century manuscript by Musica Secreta’s co-director Laurie Stras, reveal a monumental setting that is both intricate in its detail and imposing in its formal construction; a masterpiece brought from darkness into light. The second half of the disc focusses on gems by Josquin des Prez and Loyset Compere sitting alongside the anonymous beauty of works that decorated the nuns’ worship throughout the year.

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February 2020

This performance imagines them being sung in a 16th-century nunnery, so Brumel’s original low-voice scoring is transposed for female singers, with an organ and a viol providing lower parts. The resulting sound is radiant but it lacks the tenebrous quality that better reflects the plangent Passion Week text…The all-female vocal ensemble produces a delicate, unforced, vibrato-less sound.

May/June 2020

The singing is charming and the final selection, a seven-minute anonymous Salve Regina in an alternatim setting, is ravishing. This well-filled program is of unusual interest.

January 2020

Stras’s discovery almost doubles the length of the work and delightfully complicates its function...Musica Secreta begin rather carefully...The work, and indeed the performance, really begins to reveal its true richness at the first refrain, ‘Ierusalem convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum’...As so often with Musica Secreta, the meeting of inspired musicology with passionate and committed performance generates something way beyond the sum of its parts.

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