Taverner: Imperatrix inferni: Votive Antiphons & Ritual Music

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it contains some truly great music...The choir is very well directed by David Skinner who negotiates these expansive, arching structures with poise and insight...the female sopranos are at once... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Sep 2011
Catalogue No: CD707
Label: Obsidian Records
Length: 70 minutes

Taverner: Quemadmodum a 6

Work length5:44

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$1.30

Alamire
David Skinner

Taverner: Audivi vocem de coelo

Work length3:55

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$1.30

Alamire
David Skinner

Taverner: Ave Dei Patris filia

Work length14:20

$3.00

$3.85

Alamire
David Skinner

Taverner: Dum transisset Sabbatum I

Work length7:53

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$2.60

Alamire
David Skinner

Taverner: Mater Christi Sanctissima

Work length6:17

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Alamire
David Skinner

Taverner: Gaude plurimum

Work length15:34

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$5.15

Alamire
David Skinner

Taverner: Gloria in excelsis

Work length4:41

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Alamire
David Skinner

Taverner: O splendor gloriae

Work length11:51

$3.00

$3.85

Alamire
David Skinner

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John Taverner (d. 1545) is, arguably, the most famous of all early Tudor composers, and one who had a rather colourful musical and political career. His music represents the final flowering of late medieval English polyphony before the onslaught of mid 16th-century Reformation.

Much of the music on this recording centres around Taverner’s earlier career, including the three surviving large-scale Votive Antiphons. Included, too, is his sumptuous six-part Quemadmodum, which stylistically foreshadows true ‘Renaissance’ composition in England.

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January 2012

it contains some truly great music...The choir is very well directed by David Skinner who negotiates these expansive, arching structures with poise and insight...the female sopranos are at once delicate and sure-footed, and the cumulative effects from the whole choir in O splendor Gloriae are breathtaking.

January 2012

Mater Christi is near perfect in its shaping and David Skinner is right to praise Quemadmodem, whose extraordinary concision shows how far Taverner moved from the swashbuckling vigour of his youth....Taverner's successes are Alamire's, in the main...The singers respond in kind to the compact, reflective Mater Christi

November 2011

the luminous timbre of Alamire's two contraltos makes a pleasant change from the sometimes hooty tones of choral countertenors. The whole ensemble, in fact, shares that luminosity. The purity of tone and accuracy of tuning throughout this programme are about as fine as I have ever heard...a sumptuous wash of sound that is at the same time highly intelligible.

4th December 2011

It presents two of John Taverner’s Marian antiphons...alongside other ritual works, highlighting his changing approach, his convergence on an expressive clarity that became the epitome of late-Renaissance style. Unchanging are his arching melodic lines, his eloquent harmonic language and his liking for rich, variously coloured textures. The vocal ensemble Alamire’s singing approaches perfection.

Taverner: Imperatrix inferni

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