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Track(s) taken from CDA67733

Spiritus Domini

composer
6vv
author of text
Magnificat Antiphon, Whit Sunday, adapted; after Acts 2: 3-4

Cinquecento
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Recording details: May 2008
Kloster Pernegg, Waldviertel, Austria
Produced by Stephen Rice
Engineered by Markus Wallner
Release date: March 2009
Total duration: 5 minutes 16 seconds

Cover artwork: Spring. Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593)
Real Adademia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid / Bridgeman Images
 

Reviews

‘Stunning … Cinquecento's one-to-a-part approach, with countertenors on the top lines, is ideally suited to this repertory and really works wonders … at telling moments they modulate their delivery to considerable expressive effect … this highly accomplished singing does not draw attention to itself (or at least, not unduly) but focuses attention squarely on the composer. But for his early death, Vaet would have almost certainly emerged as a leading figure of his generation … this deserves to be widely heard’ (Gramophone)

‘A delicious feast of harmonic tension and inwardly-sensed architecture [Spiritus Domini]. Other gems include the expressive Miserere mei and a brilliant Salve Regina’ (BBC Music Magazine)
Spiritus Domini is unusual among the motets of Vaet, and indeed those of his contemporaries, by being structured around a cantus firmus in long notes. The subject of the motet is the Pentecost theme of the Holy Spirit going out into the world, and perhaps this image suggested the idea of a sacred chant surrounded by the more worldly elements of five other voice parts composed by Vaet.

from notes by Stephen Rice © 2009

Articulé autour d’un cantus firmus en longues, Spiritus Domini se démarque des motets de Vaet et de ses contemporains. Il a pour sujet un thème propre à la Pentecôte, la venue de l’Esprit saint dans le monde, une image qui a pu inspirer à Vaet l’idée d’un plain-chant sacré entouré par les éléments davantage temporels de cinq autres parties vocales.

extrait des notes rédigées par Stephen Rice © 2009
Français: Hypérion

Spiritus Domini ist ein Sonderfall unter den Motetten Vaets und auch der seiner Zeitgenossen, da sie um einen Cantus firmus in langen Noten herum konstruiert ist. Die Motette ist der Ausschüttung des Heiligen Geistes zu Pfingsten gewidmet und möglicherweise gab dieses Bild auch den Anstoß zu der Vorstellung von einem geistlichen Choral, der von Elementen wie fünf weiteren, weltlichen und von Vaet komponierten Singstimmen begleitet wird.

aus dem Begleittext von Stephen Rice © 2009
Deutsch: Viola Scheffel

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