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[Potter’s] approach is varied…In the Gloria of the Mass and elsewhere [he[] artfully switches between parts as he goes along so as to produce an appealing continuous vocal line. The instrumentalists... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 25th Aug 2017
Catalogue No: 4811463
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 68 minutes

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Mouton, J: Nesciens Mater

Work length3:23

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (guitar), Lee Santana (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

Heringman: Prelude I

Work length0:24

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Jacob Heringman (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

Victoria: Missa Surge Propera

Work length2:46

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John Potter (voice), Ariel Abramovich (guitar), Jacob Heringman (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

1. Kyrie

Track length2:46

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Heringman: Prelude II

Work length0:35

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Jacob Heringman (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

Victoria: Missa Surge Propera

Work length5:55

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John Potter (voice), Ariel Abramovich (guitar), Jacob Heringman (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

2. Gloria

Track length5:55

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Heringman: Prelude III

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Jacob Heringman (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

Victoria: Missa Surge Propera

Work length10:24

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John Potter (voice), Ariel Abramovich (guitar), Jacob Heringman (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

3. Credo

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Heringman: Prelude IV

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Jacob Heringman (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

Victoria: Missa Surge Propera

Work length3:42

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (guitar), Jacob Heringman (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

4a. Sanctus

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4b. Benedictus

Track length1:50

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Heringman: Prelude V

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Jacob Heringman (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

Victoria: Missa Surge Propera

Work length3:25

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (guitar), Jacob Heringman (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

5. Agnus Dei

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anon.: Inviolata

Work length1:18

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

Josquin: Inviolata

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Ariel Abramovich (guitar), Lee Santana (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

Josquin: Absalon Fili Mi

Work length3:33

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (guitar), Lee Santana (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

anon.: Obsecro te

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John Potter (voice)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

Josquin: Obsecro te

Work length5:41

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Ariel Abramovich (guitar), Lee Santana (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

Josquin: Salve Regina

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (guitar), Lee Santana (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

anon.: Benedicta Es

Work length1:53

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

Josquin: Benedicta es

Work length6:07

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John Potter (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Ariel Abramovich (guitar), Lee Santana (guitar), Hille Perl (viola da gamba)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

Josquin: Nymphes Des Bois

Work length4:28

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John Potter (voice), Ariel Abramovich (guitar), Lee Santana (guitar), Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Anna Maria Friman (voice)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

Victoria: O magnum mysterium

Work length3:06

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Ariel Abramovich (guitar), Jacob Heringman (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold

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Tomás Luis de Victoria and Josquin Desprez were not contemporaries, they lived and worked in different countries, and perhaps shared little in terms of abstract compositional style. Yet throughout Europe, generations of musicians recognized them as kindred spirits, and tablature versions of their masses and motets circulated amongst lutenists.

For tenor John Potter, this is "the secret life of the music - in historical terms its real life". In this characteristically creative project, Potter - joined by Trio Mediaeval singer Anna Maria Friman and three outstanding vihuela players - explores "what happens to music after it is composed".

The album, produced by Manfred Eicher, was recorded at the St Gerold monastery in the Austrian mountains, where Potter previously contributed to Officium and other recordings with the Hilliard Ensemble and with The Dowland Project.

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December 2017

[Potter’s] approach is varied…In the Gloria of the Mass and elsewhere [he[] artfully switches between parts as he goes along so as to produce an appealing continuous vocal line. The instrumentalists nicely demonstrate that some pieces (O Magnum Mysterium) can be effectively be portrayed without voices.

November 2017

Polyphony in the Renaissance was performed in all sorts of ways, from a profusion of voices and instruments to a single lutenist or a lone singer accompanying him or herself on a string instrument…Potter leads a hand-picked ensemble in an exploration of how such an approach might have sounded…The result is most stimulating, particularly in the Mass, where the tenor part is sung on its own.

August 2017

the singing has an airy clarity but never sounds overly manicured: the performances are shot through with the same spirit of spontaneity and exploration which made Potter's previous work on the Hilliard Ensemble's Officium such a resounding success.

24th August 2017

The secret of the title [is] that the choral works of four and five centuries ago were seen at the time not as fixed monuments but as music ripe for adaptation as intimate chamber pieces. Anna Maria Friman lends her pure soprano to some of Josquin’s motets, reworked as vocal duets, and the linking passages of chant or of solo vihuela give this pared-back disc a flowing, almost improvisatory feel.

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