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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
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
Recordings
 Byrd: Ave verum corpus & other sacred musicCSCD507Download only  This recording presents a selection of fifteen of the 150 or so Latin motets and three of the dozens of English anthems that, between them, form the larger part of the life’s work of William Byrd (1543-1623), the greatest English composer of his e ...» More |
 Byrd: The Great Service & other English musicStudio Master: CDA67937Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available  The Cardinall’s Musick are acknowledged as the premier performers of Byrd’s choral music. Their recordings of his Latin church music received the highest possible critical acclaim and the final volume won Gramophone Record of the Year. Now they tu ...» More |
 The Silken TentSIGCD826Download only  From Byrd and Gibbons through to Nyman and Goehr, this album puts to bed the idea that the viol is a spent force, the instruments' beguiling lines sinuously interweaving with soprano voice—and taking in some arresting arrangements.» More |
 Vigilate!Studio Master: SDG720Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available  This album, subtitled 'English polyphony in dangerous times', brings together six English composers whose combined careers span more than a century—Byrd, Tallis, Morley, Philips, White and Tomkins, undercover Catholic composers revelling in clande ...» More |
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