CDA67483 - Disc 1 Track 5 - Libera nos, salva nos I

Libera nos, salva nos I

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6th Psalm Antiphon at Matins on Trinity Sunday

Recordings

Mary & Elizabeth at Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)

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CDA67704

Sheppard: Church Music, Vol. 1
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

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The English Anthem, Vol. 8
St Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scott (conductor)

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CDA67483

The Sixteen & The Golden Age of Polyphony
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

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The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

Track 11 on CDA66259 [2'56] Archive Service; also available on CDS44401/10 Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: David Wulstan
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St Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scott (conductor)

Track 5 on CDA67483 [2'43] Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain
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Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)

Track 4 on CDA67704 [3'19] Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain
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The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

Track 11 on CDS44401/10 CD8 [2'56] 10CDs Boxed set (at a special price) Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: David Wulstan

Track 7 on HYP12 [2'56] Super-budget price sampler — Deleted Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: David Wulstan
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Libera nos, salva nos I

Sheppard’s first setting of Libera nos, salva nos takes as its text the sixth antiphon at Matins on Trinity Sunday. Its liturgical position was thus about half way through the chief morning Office, as celebrated in its festal form with three nocturns. The text, a petition to the Holy Trinity for freedom, redemption and absolution, is sufficiently general to allow the possibility that Sheppard’s setting was used at other Offices, in the place where votive antiphons had once been sung (and where in Anglican Offices the choir sings the anthem); it is likely that the piece was composed during Sheppard’s time at Magdalen College, Oxford, among whose statutes is the ordinance that this very text be recited twice a day. Unusually, and unlike Sheppard’s Office hymns and responds, the chant cantus firmus is placed in the lowest voice. The rate of harmonic change is consequently very slow; this, and the mode’s tonal stability, accounts for the serenity with which the music unfolds.

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Details for CDA67483 track 5

Artists

St Paul's Cathedral Choir

John Scott (conductor)

ISRC

GB-AJY-05-48305

Duration

2'43

Recording date

16 March 2004

Recording venue

St Paul's Cathedral, London, United Kingdom

Recording producer

Mark Brown

Recording engineer

Julian Millard

Hyperion usage

The English Anthem, Vol. 8 (CDA67483)
Disc 1 Track 5
Release date: January 2005

Hyperion Records