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Track(s) taken from CDA67937

Turn our captivity, O Lord

composer
Psalmes, Songs and Sonnets … fit for Voyces or Viols, 1611, xxx; AATTBB
author of text
Psalm 126: 4-6; translated by ? Richard Verstegan in The Primer, or Office of the blessed Virgin Marie, 1599

The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood (conductor)
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Recording details: November 2011
Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle, United Kingdom
Produced by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
Engineered by Martin Haskell & Iestyn Rees
Release date: October 2012
Total duration: 4 minutes 25 seconds

Cover artwork: Portrait of Elizabeth I (The Armada Portrait) in the manner of George Gower (1540-1596).
Private Collection / Photo © Philip Mould Ltd, London / Bridgeman Images
 

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Reviews

‘The singing is neat, clear and fluid, with beautifully elastic phrasing from the two tenors. The Nunc dimittis provides the sweetest moments in the Great Service itself’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘The 10 voices of the Cardinall's Musick launch into the opening of Byrd's The Great Service—'O come, let us sing unto the Lord'—with a soaring joyfulness and clarity that sustains throughout this large-scale and elaborate work. Andrew Carwood and his group have won countless accolades for their series of Byrd's Latin sacred music. In this Anglican work, they achieve the same outstanding level of musicianship. The (female) sopranos have strength and purity at the top but an effective lightness, too, closer to the sound of boy trebles. The full ensemble tone is bold and energetic’ (The Observer)

‘This new recording is something special. Whether it's because of the sheer experience of having sung so much of Byrd's music as to have assimilated his musical language utterly, or whether it's simply the raw musicianship and cultivated intelligence of the performers, there's a clarity and intensity in each verse that is spine-tingling … here, as elsewhere, the latent energy of the words as made manifest in Byrd's setting is realized with the kind of skill and conviction that moves rather than simply amazes. Which is, I guess, the point of religious music’ (International Record Review)
Turn our captivity, O Lord (Psalm 126: 4–6) is a masterpiece, plangent and imploring but with a confident triplet section for the ‘jollity’ that the blessed will inherit.

from notes by Andrew Carwood © 2012

Turn our captivity, O Lord (psaume 126: 4–6) est un chef-d’œuvre plaintif et implorant, mais avec une confiante section en triolets pour la «jollity» que les bienheureux hériteront.

extrait des notes rédigées par Andrew Carwood © 2012
Français: Hypérion

Turn our captivity, O Lord (Psalm 126, 4–6) ist ein Meisterwerk, klagend und flehend, jedoch mit einer zuversichtlichen Triolenpassage versehen, die sich auf die „Freude“ („jollity“) bezieht, die den Seligen zuteil wird.

aus dem Begleittext von Andrew Carwood © 2012
Deutsch: Viola Scheffel

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