Scattered Ashes
Magnificat, Philip Cave
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Early Music
The music on these two discs ranges from austere to luxuriant, urgent to serene. Magnificat’s director Philip Cave shapes poised, subtly expressive and finely balanced readings from the vocal...
Scattered Ashes
Magnificat, Philip Cave
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Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Early Music
The music on these two discs ranges from austere to luxuriant, urgent to serene. Magnificat’s director Philip Cave shapes poised, subtly expressive and finely balanced readings from the vocal...
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Magnificat’s 25th anniversary recording, Scattered Ashes, features contrasting and parallel works of great passion inspired by the meditations of the infamous Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola.
These Latin settings by eight great vocal composers of the 16th century display a variety of scoring, textures and harmonic language that is mirrored in their intensity and attention to detail.
Josquin’s Miserere, referred to as ‘epic’, ‘massive’, ‘courageous’ and ‘bold’ with similarities in stature and significance frequently drawn between the music of Josquin and Beethoven, opens the programme.
Josquin’s musical architecture, and his sensitivity to the text, combine to produce a work of astonishing delicacy, with kaleidoscopic twists and turns, rich and subtle use of texture and variety exploiting and illustrating the text with a heartfelt empathy.
Both challenging and thrilling to sing, Josquin’s Miserere perfectly demonstrates why Magnificat’s world-class reputation for clarity, flawless intonation and purity of tone is second to none.
Contents and tracklist
- Magnificat, Philip Cave
- Recorded: 19-29 January 2015
- Recording Venue: St George's Church, Summertown, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Magnificat, Philip Cave
- Recorded: 19-29 January 2015
- Recording Venue: St George's Church, Summertown, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Magnificat, Philip Cave
- Recorded: 19-29 January 2015
- Recording Venue: St George's Church, Summertown, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Magnificat, Philip Cave
- Recorded: 19-29 January 2015
- Recording Venue: St George's Church, Summertown, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Magnificat, Philip Cave
- Recorded: 19-29 January 2015
- Recording Venue: St George's Church, Summertown, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Magnificat, Philip Cave
- Recorded: 19-29 January 2015
- Recording Venue: St George's Church, Summertown, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Magnificat, Philip Cave
- Recorded: 19-29 January 2015
- Recording Venue: St George's Church, Summertown, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Magnificat, Philip Cave
- Recorded: 19-29 January 2015
- Recording Venue: St George's Church, Summertown, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Awards and reviews
June 2016
The music on these two discs ranges from austere to luxuriant, urgent to serene. Magnificat’s director Philip Cave shapes poised, subtly expressive and finely balanced readings from the vocal ensemble he founded a quarter of a century ago. His measured tempos reflect the predominantly contemplative tone of these works, and the sable hues and unwavering timbres of his singers are aptly evocative of Savonarolan sobriety
March 2016
In Lheritier's In te Domine, Domine speravi, Magnificat's velvety sound is at its most luxurious. This sonorous ensemble, combined with Cave's unhurried tempi, create a wonderfully melancholic sound world. Their interpretations of the post-Josquin generation of continental composers, Gombert and Clemens specifically, are among the finest on disc.
14th February 2016
This choice selection ranges from Josquin’s epic Miserere mei, Deus to Byrd’s Infelix ergo, every work a model of emotionally moving expressive intensity. The singers exquisitely shape and blend each one.
28th February 2016
the pure, unadorned quality of the singing and the range of music make this essential listening.
