Biber: Vesperae longiores ac breviores
Mellissa Hughes (soprano), Ian L. Howell (countertenor), Derek Chester (tenor), Douglas Williams (bass-baritone), Robert Mealy (violin), Stephen Fraser (organ)
Yale Schola Cantorum & Yale Collegium Players, Simon Carrington
This is an amalgam of little-known music by Biber and others. Carrington deftly brings outs the music's strengths.
Biber: Vesperae longiores ac breviores
Mellissa Hughes (soprano), Ian L. Howell (countertenor), Derek Chester (tenor), Douglas Williams (bass-baritone), Robert Mealy (violin), Stephen Fraser (organ)
Yale Schola Cantorum & Yale Collegium Players, Simon Carrington
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This is an amalgam of little-known music by Biber and others. Carrington deftly brings outs the music's strengths.
About
Biber is best known as one of the most important composers for the violin but was also a prolific composer of sacred vocal works. The works featured here, Vesperae Longiores ac Breviores Unacum Litaniis Lauretanis are seldom heard. Simon Carrington was a co-founder of the Kings Singers and was professor of choral conducting at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and director of this choir.
Contents and tracklist
- Mellissa Hughes (soprano), Derek Chester (tenor), Ian L. Howell (countertenor), Douglas Williams (baritone), Stephen Fraser (organ)
- Yale Collegium Players, Yale Schola Cantorum
- Simon Carrington
- Recorded: 2011-01-01
- Mellissa Hughes (soprano), Derek Chester (tenor), Ian L. Howell (countertenor), Douglas Williams (baritone), Stephen Fraser (organ)
- Yale Collegium Players, Yale Schola Cantorum
- Simon Carrington
- Recorded: 2011-01-01
- Stephen Fraser (organ)
- Yale Collegium Players
- Simon Carrington
- Recorded: 2011-01-01
- Mellissa Hughes (soprano), Ian L. Howell (countertenor), Derek Chester (tenor), Douglas Williams (baritone), Stephen Fraser (organ)
- Yale Collegium Players, Yale Schola Cantorum
- Simon Carrington
- Recorded: 2011-01-01
- Robert Mealy (violin), William Perdue (cello), Stephen Fraser (organ)
- Simon Carrington
- Recorded: 2011-01-01
- Mellissa Hughes (soprano), Derek Chester (tenor), Ian L. Howell (countertenor), Douglas Williams (baritone), Stephen Fraser (organ)
- Yale Collegium Players, Yale Schola Cantorum
- Simon Carrington
- Recorded: 2011-01-01
- Mellissa Hughes (soprano), Stephen Fraser (organ)
- Yale Collegium Players
- Simon Carrington
- Recorded: 2011-01-01
- Mellissa Hughes (soprano), Derek Chester (tenor), Ian L. Howell (countertenor), Douglas Williams (baritone), Stephen Fraser (organ)
- Yale Collegium Players, Yale Schola Cantorum
- Simon Carrington
- Recorded: 2011-01-01
- Stephen Fraser (organ)
- Yale Schola Cantorum
- Simon Carrington
- Recorded: 2011-01-01
Awards and reviews
June 2011
This is an amalgam of little-known music by Biber and others. Carrington deftly brings outs the music's strengths.
July 2011
the solo voices are all attractive and accomplished, and strong instrumental playing is crowned by Robert Mealy's imposing 'Annunciation' from the Mystery Sonatas.
