Byrd: Mass for Four Voices; Mass for Five Voices; Infelix ego
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Composer: William [Composer] ByrdConductor: Jeremy Summerly
Orchestra: Oxford Camerata
Performer: James Gilchrist
Performer: Robin Blaze
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-02-15
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Mass for 4 Voices (SATB): Kyrie
- Mass for 4 Voices (SATB): Gloria
- Mass for 4 Voices (SATB): Credo
- Mass for 4 Voices (SATB): Sanctus
- Mass for 4 Voices (SATB): Agnus Dei
- Infelix ego, motet for 6 voices (SMez ATBarB)
- Mass for 5 Voices (SATTB): Kyrie
- Mass for 5 Voices (SATTB): Gloria
- Mass for 5 Voices (SATTB): Credo
- Mass for 5 Voices (SATTB): Sanctus
- Mass for 5 Voices (SATTB): Agnus Dei
Free Music Notes for Byrd: Mass for Four Voices; Mass for Five Voices; Infelix ego
Free Music Review: Intense devotion, splendid performance!
Hit: 5 Stars
Amongst the greatest late-Renaissance, sacred-music composers- Paletrina, Lassus, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd- I have to confess that De Victoria and William Byrd caught my heart above all else.
De Victoria's music expresses a range of emotions, soulfulness and passion that would stretch you upward as if some sort of heavenly power is pulling you from above. You can always feel his music pulsating in your ears-a feeling that Palestrina could not, or rather, refrained from giving to his listeners.
Byrd's music, on the other hand, seems to embody a set of different spiritual idioms from all others. His music is powerful, emotional, yet in a more subjective expressiveness than even the music of De Victoria. His sacred music, especially for the Roman rites, seems coming straight from his heart, as if one can hear his despair, sorrow, cries for deliverance, and hope in his masses and motets. I think it must have something to do with his situation as a member of the persecuted Catholics in England during his time.
The masses and the motet Infelix Ego on this CD is a great place to approach Byrd's sacred music. I love these masterpices so much that words cannot adequately describe them. The minute when I started playing this disc, the music just seemed to be burning in my heart like an autumnal fire- it's touching, it's powerful, and it's affirming the mysteries of faith.
The performance by Oxford Camerata with Jeremy Summerly as Conductor is first-class. With Naxos's bargain price, do not hesitate further. Snatch it up if you like Renaissance music, or sacred music in general. Check out William Byrd's masterpieces yourself.
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