Desolata Est

 

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Cat No: CLOCD0701

The Ebor Singers
Directed by Paul Gameson
Organ: Robert Poyser

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This disc presents an anthology of seventeenth century sacred works whose texts are thematically associated with human frailties, suffering and God's intercession, and man's mortality and hope for the life to come: while such texts are not as exclusively bleak as the title of this collection suggests, they have prompted expressive responses from composers through the centuries, not least in the turbulent years of the seventeenth century that saw much religious, political and social change.

Historically, the works included here cover music by Catholic and Protestant composers, from the late flowering of the Renaissance in England (Byrd, Morley), the dissemination of Italian ideas through Europe in the 1610s-50s (Carissimi, Schütz, Lawes), and the establishment of the oratorio in France at the end of the century.

1

Ne irascaris Domine
William Byrd

 

2

An den Wassern zu Babel
Henrich Schutz

  

3

O God my strength and fortitude
William Lawes

  

4

Haset thee O Lord my God to deliver me
Henry Aldrich

  

5

Prayer and Responses

  

6

Music, the master of the art is dead
William Lawes

  

7

I am the resurrection and the life
Thomas Morley

  

8

I know that my redeemer liveth
Thomas Morley

  

9

We brought nothing into this world
Thomas Morley

  

10

Man that is born of a woman
Thomas Morley

  

11

In the midst of life we are in death
Thomas Morley

  

12

Thou knowest Lord
Henry Purcell

  

13

I heard a voice
Thomas Morley

  

Recorded at the National Centre for Early Music on the 15th and 22nd of February, 2001.

Recording Engineer: Christopher Barlow
Producer: John Potter