Reges Terrae: Music from the Time of Emperor Charles V

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Nordic Voices' mixed six-voice configuration (two sopranos, one each of mezzo, tenor, baritone and bass) is beautifully suited to the music in this programme, and their clear, radiant performances,... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Jul 2007
Catalogue No: CHSA5050
Label: Chandos
Length: 48 minutes

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Manchicourt: Reges terrae

Work length8:18

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Ebba Rydh (mezzo-soprano)
Nordic Voices

I. Regees terrae congregati sunt

Track length4:22

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II. Et venientes invenerunt puerum

Track length3:56

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Morales, C: Regina caeli

Work length5:26

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Ebba Rydh (mezzo-soprano)
Nordic Voices

I. Reguba caeli, laetare

Track length2:44

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II. Resurrexit sicut dixit

Track length2:42

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Manchicourt: Laudate Dominum

Work length4:39

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Ebba Rydh (mezzo-soprano)
Nordic Voices

I. Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes

Track length2:45

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II. Plaudite ergo, omnes gentes

Track length1:54

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Clemens: O magnum mysterium

Work length7:23

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Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano)
Nordic Voices

I. O magnum mysterium

Track length3:34

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II. Domine, audivi auditum tuum

Track length3:49

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Guerrero, Francisco: Hei mihi Domine

Work length3:18

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Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano)
Nordic Voices

Gombert: Ego sum qui sum

Work length7:11

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Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano)
Nordic Voices

I. Ego sum qui sum

Track length3:19

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II. Tulerunt Dominum meum

Track length3:52

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Manchicourt: O Virgo viginum

Work length3:10

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Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano)
Nordic Voices

Morales, C: Exaltata est sancta Dei Genitrix

Work length6:36

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Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano)
Nordic Voices

I. Exaltata est sancta Dei Genitrix

Track length2:47

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II. Virgo Prudentissima

Track length3:49

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Manchicourt: Missa Reges Terrae: Agnus Dei

Work length2:46

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Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano)
Nordic Voices

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During the first half of the sixteenth century, there was no greater a ruler than the Emperor Charles V, whose court was lavishly supplied with music by composers of high talent. Charles had a personal enthusiasm for music, and his chapel was more or less in constant attendance on his travels. It is small wonder, then, that a number of the greatest composers of the age had some connection with him, including the Franco-Flemish composers Manchicourt, Cristóbal de Morales and Nicolas Gombert. Complementing these composers are the perhaps less well-known Guerrero and Jacobus Clemens non Papa. As members of the chapel choir of Charles V, most of these composers travelled the Empire widely, and were praised as among the outstanding masters of their time. Only Francisco Guerrero worked exclusively in Spain. To us the least well known of the Spanish composers of the period, and consequently the most underrated, he was the most admired Spanish musician of the second half of the sixteenth century, known for his Latin liturgical works. Manchicourt composed some of the most glorious music of the time, this CD including the well-known early motet O Virgo virginum along with the premiere recording of the Agnus Dei from the Missa Reges terrae. De Morales is widely recognised as the most important figure in early sixteenth-century Spanish music, garnering frequent praise from his contemporaries and ranking with Palestrina in his mastery of polyphony. Nordic Voices here present two of his sumptuous and richly varied motets.

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October 2007

Nordic Voices' mixed six-voice configuration (two sopranos, one each of mezzo, tenor, baritone and bass) is beautifully suited to the music in this programme, and their clear, radiant performances, full of character, are vividly captured by the DSD recording on this hybrid disc. The ensemble sound is intimate and close yet individual voices exhibit an airiness and spaciousness.

Intonation? Impeccable. Ensemble? Unfailing precision in phrasing, dynamics, color – everything finely tuned a
succession of works ever-changing in style and expressive meaning.

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