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Track(s) taken from CDA67887

Deficiat in dolore vita mea

composer
6vv SSATTB; published in Magnum opus musicum, Munich, 1604
author of text
after Psalm 30 (31): 11

The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice (conductor)
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Recording details: September 2010
The Chapel of Harcourt Hill campus, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Produced by Jeremy Summerly
Engineered by Justin Lowe
Release date: August 2011
Total duration: 4 minutes 8 seconds

Cover artwork: Sibyl (c1540). Francesco Ubertini Verdi Bachiacca (c1494-1557)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna / Bridgeman Images
 

Reviews

‘The Brabant Ensemble's singers sound thoroughly engaged in their tribute to Lassus, with a rich tone-spectrum allowing for maximum appreciation of his fluid, elegant polyphony’ (Choir & Organ)

‘They certainly are astonishing in their harmonic daring, moving from C major via G major and B major to C sharp minor in the bat of an eyelid, and are wonderfully captured here by the suavely assured Brabant Ensemble under scholarly Stephen Rice. The prologue and 12 movements that make up Prophetiae Sibyllarum are joined by a Mass, a magnificat and three marvellous motets, including the sumptuous Tristis est anima mea. Listen and be moved’ (The Observer)

‘The performances throughout are wonderfully persuasive, with nothing arch or affected in the way in which the texts are presented; expressively, music that is as highly wrought as any of its time is made to seem completely natural’ (The Guardian)

‘In his day, de Lassus was more celebrated than his contemporary Palestrina and even more prolific, although today their relative pre-eminence is reversed. This disc is typically representative of The Brabant Ensemble's intention to record and promulgate somewhat lesser-known music from the first half of the sixteenth century. Devotees of the period will welcome its austere, otherworldly beauty’ (MusicWeb International)
Deficiat in dolore vita mea is along the conventional lines of the Franco-Flemish motet, using dissonant suspensions and passing notes to heighten the penitential air of the text.

from notes by Stephen Rice © 2011

Davantage dans la ligne conventionnelle du motet franco-flamand, Deficiat in dolore vita mea recourt à des suspensions dissonantes et à des notes de passage pour exacerber l’atmosphère pénitentielle du texte.

extrait des notes rédigées par Stephen Rice © 2011
Français: Hypérion

Deficiat in dolore vita mea entspricht den Konventionen der franko-flämischen Motette, in der dissonante Vorhalte und Durchgangstöne eingesetzt werden, um die reuevolle Atmosphäre des Texts zu steigern.

aus dem Begleittext von Stephen Rice © 2011
Deutsch: Viola Scheffel

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