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Artist: Musica Contexta, Steven Devine, Simon Ravens, English Cornett, Sackbut Ensemble
Title: Byrd: The Great Service in the Chapel Royal
Year Of Release: 2012 / 2022
Label: Chandos
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet) [96kHz/24bit]
Total Time: 1:07:19
Total Size: 1.38 GB
Tracklist:
1. English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble & Simon Ravens – Gradualia, Book 2: Constitues eos (Arr. for Brass Ensemble) (01:12)
2. Simon Ravens & Musica Contexta – The Great Service: Venite (05:13)
3. Simon Ravens & Musica Contexta – Second Preces and Psalms: Psalm 114. When Israel Came Out of Egypt (01:54)
4. Simon Ravens & Musica Contexta – The Great Service: Te Deum (09:35)
5. Simon Ravens & Musica Contexta – The Great Service: Benedictus (09:17)
6. Steven Devine, Simon Ravens & Musica Contexta – Sing Joyfully Unto God Our Strength (02:42)
7. Simon Ravens & English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble – Gradualia, Book 2: Nunc scio vere (Arr. for Brass Ensemble) (03:50)
8. Musica Contexta & Simon Ravens – The Great Service: Kyrie (00:54)
9. Steven Devine – Prelude in C Major (01:14)
10. Simon Ravens & Musica Contexta – The Great Service: Creed (05:37)
11. Simon Ravens & English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble – Gradualia, Book 2: Hodie Simon Petrus (Arr. for Brass Ensemble) (03:34)
12. Musica Contexta & Simon Ravens – First Preces and Psalms: Psalm 47. O Clap Your Hands Together, All Ye People (03:11)
13. Simon Ravens & Musica Contexta – The Great Service: Magnificat (09:27)
14. Steven Devine – Verse in C Major (02:05)
15. Musica Contexta & Simon Ravens – The Great Service: Nunc dimittis (05:02)
16. Simon Ravens & Musica Contexta – O Lord, Make Thy Servant Elizabeth the Queen (02:29)
Musica Contexta translates literally as ‘music interwoven’, reflecting the group’s primary aim of presenting Renaissance music in the context of its original conception and function. They are joined on this recording by The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble and the harpsichordist Steven Devine.
The Great Service, consisting of settings of liturgical texts for Matins, Communion, and Evensong, is among the finest music by William Byrd for the Anglican Church. He wrote this grand-scale work for two five-part choirs who, for added contrast, would sing their respective parts facing each other from either side of the church. The size of the choir was used not so much for volume or declamatory effect, as for an extraordinarily rich variety of vocal textures and sonorities.
As well as constantly changing the combination of voices, Byrd was exceptionally inventive in countless other ways, for example by varying the phrase lengths and rhythms, by throwing in unexpected harmonies, and by repeating lines in ever more elaborate ways. The endless variety with which Byrd played with the available combinations gives the Great Service a kaleidoscopic character, which is very rare in late Renaissance music.
The Great Service is a prime example of how the written music only partially plots a Renaissance composer’s intentions for interpreters of today. It is the nature of Renaissance music, as it was written, deliberately to encourage different approaches. In the words of Simon Ravens, the Music Director of Musica Contexta: ‘That which we might consider frustratingly vague, they thought of as an open embrace of the broadest possible church of performers.’ He continues: ‘And although our performance resonates with thoughts of the Chapel Royal, we have not attempted to tie this recording, taken as a whole, to any particular occasion or place: the evidence for us to reconstruct any such event simply does not exist.’ It has been suggested, however, that the whole work may have been written for the fortieth anniversary in 1598 of Queen Elizabeth’s accession.
“The magnificent series of recordings by The Cardinall’s Musick under Andrew Carwood has brought the sacred music of William Byrd to a new generation of listeners” (Richard Lawrence, Gramophone magazine)
“...this is a first-class recording of a familiar masterpiece in a refreshed guise, underpinned by honest, open-minded scholarship, and realised with creative flair. It’s a resounding success.” (Peter Lynan, International Record Review)
Musica Contexta
Steven Devine, organ
English Cornett
Sackbut Ensemble