Hide player

Hyperion Records

Click cover art to view larger version
Track(s) taken from CDA66062

EnglishFrançaisDeutsch
On one level this is the most ‘purist’ product of Bruckner’s engagement with the principles of Franz Xaver Witt. Set in the old Church Lydian Mode (the white-note scale based on F) throughout, it contains no sharps or flats, no ‘dominant’ sevenths, and no six–four (second inversion) chords—the last two anathematized according to the supposed ‘rules’ of Palestrina’s time. The miracle is that it all sounds so effortless and natural, without so much as a hint of ironic or sentimental archaism. The central section (‘et lingua eius’) comprises some of the most serenely beautiful counterpoint in all Bruckner. At its conclusion, Os iusti dovetails skilfully into a plainchant ‘Alleluia’ celebrating the ancient wisdom of the Church.

from notes by Stephen Johnson © 2007

Recording details: May 1982
St Alban's Church, Holborn, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: April 1986
Total duration: 4 minutes 56 seconds

Os iusti meditabitur
composer
1879; 4/8vv; Lydian mode; composed for Ignaz Traumihler, choirmaster at St Florian
author of text
Psalm 36 (37): 30-31
Other recordings available for download
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)
Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)

Other albums featuring this work
Cover of 'Bruckner: Mass & Motets' (CDA67629)
Cover of 'The Feast of St Edward at Westminster Abbey' (CDA67586)
Show: MP3 FLAC ALAC
   English   Français   Deutsch
over £20 for 10% discount on whole order
over £40 for 15% discount on whole order
over £59 for 25% discount on whole order
over £200 for 35% discount on whole order
(P&P free on almost all orders.)
Your basket:
There are no items in your basket.
Use the Buy buttons across the site.

The following discounts will be applied for CD purchases:
ms'); ' %>