德普瑞：童貞聖母彌撒曲、聖母頌彌撒曲 Josquin：Missa De beata virgine · Missa Ave maris stella

專輯編號： CDGIM044

專輯類型：單CD

發行年份： 2014

國際條碼： 0755138104426

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No one until now has mounted a serious and comprehensive retrospective of music by the composer who ranked
higher than any other in the England of Henry VII and the young Henry VIII. Why Cornysh’s work should be so
grossly overlooked today is hard to understand. A couple of antiphons have found their way on to record, but other
pieces – including the astonishing Magnificat – here make their first appearance in the catalogue. Full credit, then,
to The Tallis Scholars, not only for putting matters to right but also for doing so in performances that will thrill
everyone who hears them.
“Those who like to have their composers neatly pigeon-holed will note that Cornysh died in 1523, two years after
Josquin Desprez. In practice it would be difficult to imagine a pair of contemporaneous composers (at least before
the nineteenth century) more distant from one another in ideology and technique. Where Josquin’s music is orderly,
Cornysh’s is a riot of abundant, often seemingly wild melody. Where Josquin customizes his music to the meaning
and sound of the words, Cornysh sets off in search of wanton, abstract, dare-devil ideas. Take for example the
extraordinary conclusion to the five-part Magnificat, where pairs of voices, rising in turn from the lowest in the choir
to the highest, are challenged with music of gradually increasing complexity, peaking in an exchange of quite hairraising
virtuosity between the sopranos – and all this just for the words ‘and ever shall be, world without end’!
“As far as the sacred works are concerned, The Tallis Scholars respond magnificently to Cornysh’s audacious
imagination. Choosing high treble pitch for the pieces with proper soprano parts, Peter Phillips has faced his women
singers with what must surely have been their Waterloo, and they emerge victorious: it is a majestic and glorious
sound, to be relished in full in the Stabat mater, a huge piece that survives incomplete and for which the late Frank
Harrison composed treble parts that may even trump Cornysh himself in their sheer bravura. Marginally less striking
in The Tallis Scholars’ performances are the short part-songs and the carol Woefully arrayed, robbed as they are here
of some of their latent expressiveness and strength by being sung (admittedly very beautifully) in an inappropriately
resonant building, and in rounded modern English vowels rather than their brighter, more robust Tudor equivalents.
But judged as a whole this record must be reckoned an outstanding success, and a long overdue tribute to one of
Britain’s most exotic musical geniuses.”

Missa De beata virgine [38'03]
1 Kyrie [4'25]
2 Gloria [9'53]
3 Credo [9'09]
4 Sanctus and Benedictus [7'47]
5 Agnus Dei [6'49]
6 Credo quarti toni 'Cambrai Credo' [9'23]
7 Ave maris stella [0'36] Anonymous - Medieval, Christopher Watson (tenor)

Missa Ave maris stella [27'56]
8 Kyrie [2'49]
9 Gloria [5'06]
10 Credo [7'06]
11 Sanctus and Benedictus [7'54]
12 Agnus Dei [5'01]

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