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The performances are shapely and expressive, leaving nothing to be desired in technical polish. Connoisseurs will rejoice to have this rare music brought to life for all to hear.' — American Record Guide More…

Release Date: 3rd Jan 2005
Catalogue No: CDA67490
Label: Hyperion
Length: 65 minutes

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Peerson: Deus omnipotens

Work length8:32

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Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore

I. Deum omnipotens

Track length4:33

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II. Redemptor mundi

Track length3:59

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Peerson: Pater fili paraclete

Work length3:36

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Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore

Peerson: Levavi oculos meos

Work length9:44

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Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore

I. Levavi oculos

Track length5:39

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II. Ecce non dormitabit

Track length4:05

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Peerson: Mulieres sedentes

Work length7:41

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Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore

I. Mulieres sedentes

Track length4:08

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II. Christus factus est

Track length3:33

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Peerson: Hora nona

Work length7:44

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Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore

I. Hora nona

Track length4:21

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II. Latus eius

Track length3:23

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Peerson: O rex gloriae

Work length4:45

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Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore

Peerson: Quid vobis videtur

Work length6:06

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Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore

Peerson: O Domine Jesu Christe

Work length6:00

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Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore

Peerson: Laboravi in gemitu meo

Work length5:31

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Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore

Peerson: Nolite fieri

Work length5:46

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Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore

I. Nolite fieri

Track length2:37

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II. Multa flagella peccatoris

Track length3:09

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The 1604 Royal May Day celebrationsthe Proms in the Park of their dayheadlined with a madrigal by Martin Peerson. His career can be traced through posts at Westminster Abbey and St Pauls Cathedral, and his powerful patrons enabled a considerable quantity of music to be printed and published. Today little remains. These fifteen Latin motets survive in a single, incomplete source. Their performance herethe first for some three hundred yearsis possible thanks to a pioneering reconstruction (by Richard Rastall of Antico Edition) of the missing voice part. Despite their pre-Reformation Latin texts (at a time where few institutions were permitted such Popery) and Peersons 1606 conviction for recusancy, the composers evident position at the heart of the new Anglican establishment confirms the overall esteem in which he was held. And the music more than lives up to this reputationharmonies of sustained intensity and an intricate understanding of the contemporary imitative technique lend the collection a rare cohesion and give testimony to a man of immense compassion and faith. The Ex Cathedra Consortthe twelve-voice soloistic ensemble from Ex Cathedragives performances every bit as good as the groups enviable reputation would predict.

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The performances are shapely and expressive, leaving nothing to be desired in technical polish. Connoisseurs will rejoice to have this rare music brought to life for all to hear.'

March 2005

The Ex Cathedra Consort triumphs beautifully over the vocal challenges of this music.

Tuning, balance, and ensemble are all excellent, and Peerson's often complex, even convoluted polyphony emerges with a commendable clarity that is a tribute to both director and singers. Add to that Hyperion's customary outstanding engineering, and you have a splendid disc of unusual repertoire that fully deserves widespread attention and success

This recording ... affords us what we may assume is a good overview of the works of a skilled composer, who clearly absorbed a range of influences but was not afraid to put his own personal mark on his music, and as such is an uncommon treat.

Birmingham Post

For all their comparative youthfulness, these are mature voices in the ECC, complemented by agile and well-controlled technique. As is typical with Skidmore-directed performances, the Latin is shaded with pronunciation coloured with the country's local accent … just one example of these performers' thoughtful preparation and response.

Daily Telegraph

This recording is one of the most exciting discs of Renaissance sacred music to have appeared in recent years … These fine motets show that he was a highly accomplished composer of choral polyphony with a strongly individual flavour, which uses imaginatively understated means to pack a considerable emotional punch

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