Lamentations

Release Date: 24th Aug 2009
Catalogue No: 93775
Label: Brilliant Classics
Series: Musica Sacra
Length: 74 minutes

Palestrina: Stabat mater

Work length11:20

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Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Timothy Brown

Stabat mater a 8

Track length11:20

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Allegri: Miserere mei, Deus

Work length12:44

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Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Timothy Brown

Il salmo Miserere mei Deus

Track length12:44

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Ramsey, R: How are the mighty fallen

Work length7:39

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Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Timothy Brown

Weelkes: When David Heard

Work length4:27

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Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Timothy Brown

Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah I

Work length7:27

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Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Timothy Brown

Victoria: O vos omnes

Work length2:27

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Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Timothy Brown

Josquin: Nymphes Des Bois

Work length4:35

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Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Timothy Brown

Gesualdo: O Vos Omnes

Work length2:55

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Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Timothy Brown

Palestrina: Super flumina Babylonis

Work length3:48

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Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Timothy Brown

Josquin: Absalon Fili Mi

Work length3:51

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Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Timothy Brown

Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae I

Work length4:18

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Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Timothy Brown

Liber primus sacrarum cantionum (Cantiones sacrae): Civitas sancti tui

Track length4:18

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Tomkins: When David Heard

Work length4:38

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Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Timothy Brown

Kirbye: Vox in Rama

Work length4:27

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Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Timothy Brown

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This recording brings together music composed in a variety of contrasting yet complemetary forms, from Gregorian chant to more elaborate, polyphonic music, set to words that explore the rawest human emotions, death, sin and repentance. The death of a loved one is a particularly distressing experience, and over the centuries composers have chanelled their grief into their most moving and emotional works. In the 1850s Brahms composed the German Requiem after he lost his mother, and Fauré’s Requiem was also composed after his mother died. Britten produced the imposingly bleak and Mahlerian Sinfonia da Requiem after the death of his parents.

In this recording, the grief of Mary, the mother of Christ, is portrayed in Palestrina’s masterful setting of the Stabat Mater, composed for Pope Gregory XIV. Another moving portrayal of grief is Weelkes’s intimate depiction of the pain of David upon learning of his son Absalom’s death, When David heard. Allegri’s Miserere concerns the belief in a higher power and the submission to it. Set to Psalm 51, the work was recognised by its composer and the Vatican as being of such beauty that its publishing was forbidden. No score was to leave the Papal Chapel. The child Mozart was famously shown the score, and he copied it from memory in the 1770s and in effect released this remarkable work to the wider world.

Lamentations

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