Utopia Triumphans
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1995-10-17
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Spem in alium - Thomas Tallis
- Sanctus, Agnus Dei - (from the `Missa Ducalis`)
- Qui habitat (Psalm 90) - Josquin Desprez
- Deo gratias
- Laudate Dominum
- Exaudi me Domine - Giovanni Gabrieli
- Ecce beatam lucem
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Free Music Review: Good, maybe great, but what about the instruments?
Hit: 5 Stars
This rather idealised "vision" of music from the Renaissance, High Renaissance and Early Baroque is quite magnificent and for anyone who wants to O.D. on the human voice, look no further. This recording will show you what a large bunch of voice can do when provided with suitable music. We have here some of the very largest scaled creations or should I say "musical conceptions"? from pre-Classical times.
The two 40 part motets by Striggio and Tallis are well know, although the Tallis is much better know and now frequently recorded. I think that the Huelgas Ensemble does a great job of bringing these works to life. However, I have a quibble. Spem in Alium includes a basso continuo line. I suppose that this should be performed on one or more organs. We also know that the performance of the Striggio motet also included 8 viols and 8 trombones. Why have these instruments been omitted? The four choir motet by Giovanni Gabrieli only includes on purely vocal choir - the "Cappella" - all the other three choirs should include a single solo voice and large number of cornetti and tromboni - cornetts playing the upper lines of high "choirs", with the lowest line sung by a countertenor or tenor and the low pitches choirs should have a tenor or baritone soloist on the top line and trombones on all the lower lines. Each of the four choirs should have an accompanying basso continuo organ and, perhaps, chitarrone. To perform this work as a purely vocal work was not what the composer intended, expected or even, possibly, imagined. Gabrieli put texts under instrumental lines to help with the cuing of entries and the interpretation of the music.
The Ockeghem Canon for thirty six voices is something special!
Buy this recording in spite of my nit-picking!
I only hope that the newly discovered Missa ? 60 voci* by Alessandro Striggio is recorded soon! It was famous in the High Renaissance and we are lucky the score survived!
* No, I am not joking. I said SIXTY! Sixty part counterpoint! How's them apples?
Utopia Triumphans Poster
A greatly expanded Huelgas Ensemble performs here a collection of multivoice works--pieces that are often referred to but, for logistical reasons, rarely performed. Tallis's famous Spem in alium non habui for 40 voices is here, of course; so is the piece that inspired it, Striggio's 40-voice Ecce beatam lucem. Also included are two extraordinary canons: Ockeghem's 36-voice Deo gratias and Josquin's 24-voice Qui habitat--as well as relatively modest pieces for 13 to 16 voices by Porta and Gabrieli. Spem has had livelier performances (try the Tallis Scholars on Gimell), but none of the others have been recorded elsewhere at all, let alone as well as this. You're not likely to hear them in concert, either, so check this disc out. --Matthew WestphalClassical Music CDs
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