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Lamentations a 5

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Lamentations 1: 8-13

The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (conductor)
Recording details: Unknown
The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Salle, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Produced by Steve C Smith & Peter Phillips
Engineered by Philip Hobbs
Release date: September 1995
Total duration: 22 minutes 3 seconds

Cover artwork: The Man in the moon, medieval stained glass in the porch of St Mary's Church, Norfolk, photographed. Matthew Stevens
 

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The five-part Lamentations (two separate laments customarily sung together) are consummate pieces of vocal architecture, the emotion carefully channelled in both halves towards the concluding phrase ‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum’. The power of White’s setting of these famous words has been apparent to those who have heard it almost since the day it was written: the scribe of the unique source of the work added (in Latin) at the end of his transcription: ‘Not even the words of the gloomy prophet sound so sad as the sad music of my composer.’

from notes by Peter Phillips © 1995

Les Lamentations à cinq voix (deux morceaux différents chantés d’ordinaire ensemble) font preuve d’un art consommé de l’architecture vocale, l’émotion étant soigneusement canalisée dans les deux moitiés vers la phrase finale «Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum». La puissance de la mise en musique par White de ces mots célèbres est apparue pratiquement dès son origine à ceux qui l’ont entendue; le scribe de la seule source de l’oeuvre ajouta (en latin) à la fin de sa transcription: «Même les mots du sombre prophète ne résonnent pas de la même tristesse que la triste musique de mon compositeur.»

extrait des notes rédigées par Peter Phillips © 1995
Français: Myrna F Denis/Gimell

Die fünfstimmigen Lamentationen (jeweils zwei werden üblicherweise zusammenhängend aufgeführt) sind vollendete Beispiele kompositorischer Dramaturgie innerhalb der Vokalmusik, wobei die emotionelle Bewegung in beiden Teilen mit Bedacht auf die Schlußphrase gelenkt wird: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum”. Den außerordentlich tiefen Eindruck, den die Vertonung dieser berühmten Worte durch White von Anfang an hinterließ, beweist der lateinische Kommentar, mit dem der Kopist der einzig überlieferten Quelle seine Abschrift versah: “Nicht einmal die Worte des düsteren Propheten haben eine so ergreifende Wirkung wie die traurige Musik meines Komponisten.”

aus dem Begleittext von Peter Phillips © 1995
Deutsch: Gerd Hüttenhofer

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