Miserere
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Performer: Lawrence WallingtonComposer: Gregorio Allegri
Composer: Tommaso Baj
Composer: Gregorian Chant
Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo
Composer: Joao IV of Portugal
Composer: Antonio Lotti
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Conductor: Martin Neary
Performer: Abbey Consort
Orchestra: Abbey Consort
Orchestra: Westminster Abbey Choir
Performer: Jennifer Smith
Performer: Libby Crabtree
Performer: Leigh Nixon
Performer: Stephen Harrold
Performer: Robin Jeffrey
Performer: Catherine King
Performer: Simon Birchall
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-03-26
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Hymn, Vexilla Regis prodeunt
- psalm 50 (51) @9, Miserere mei, Deus (modern version)
- Antiphon, Christus factus est (I)
- Motet @8, Crucifixus
- Reproaches (I), Popule meus / Ego te eduxi
- Responsory @6, Caligaverunt oculi mei
- Motet @8, O Domine Jesu Christe
- Antiphon, Christus factus est (II)
- Motet @6 Crucifixus
- Reproaches (II), Quia eduxi te / Ego te pavi
- Responsory @6, Tenebrae factae sunt
- Motet @6, Adoramus te, Christe
- Antiphon, Christus factus est (III)
- Motet @10, Crucifixus
- Reproaches (III), Quid ultra debui / Ego te exaltavi
- Psalm 50 (51) @9, Miserere mei, Deus
- Hymn, Crux fidelis / Pange, lingua
Music reviews of Miserere
Music Review: A very beautiful disk with an especially strong boy soprano for the Allegri
Rating: 5 Stars
I bought this disk during a visit my oldest daughter and I paid to Westminster Abbey awhile back. We were fortunate to hear a choir rehearsing in the Abbey and as we were touring other portions and were near where the public does all the brass rubbings we heard this disk being played. It sounded especially fine reverberating through all that stone. Not only am I partial to sixteenth and seventeenth century polyphony, I have always enjoyed the sound of boys singing well. So, this disk was a must have.
The star piece, the Allegri "Miserere" is a famous piece with a less than straightforward history. It was a piece performed only in the Papal chapel. However, it was a very famous work and people wanted to get copies of the score, but were not allowed. Talented musicians, including famous musicians, went to hear the work and wrote down portions of it. At its peak the Papal Choir was dominated by castrati and it was probably the sound of their strong and high voices that made the Allegri work so effective.
The version of that work on this disk is not completely Allegri's work. It was "corrected" over the centuries and this version is a 19th century English interpretation of the work (still sung in Latin, of course). This version remains immensely popular and is very beautiful. The boy soprano singing the lead part here is very strong and makes the work ring in a way that is especially captivating. You can hear this work performed many times without hearing anything approaching the beauty of this recording.
The other works on the album are also quite wonderful. At times the boy's voices are supplemented with adult males and some women. We get wonderful works by Lotti, Gesualdo, Gabrielli, Monetverdi and others (including several relevant plainchant).
Great disk, which I strongly recommend to you.
Description of Miserere
Rising from the 1990s atmosphere of chant-mania came an idea from someone at Sony to compile a choral disc that would present the genre in an attractive, commercial package. This recording does a fair job of fulfilling that task. The program features some of the finest plainchant, chant-based works, and music written for the Holy Week liturgy, from composers such as Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Lotti, and Allegri. Of course, the famous Miserere by Allegri is here, with its starring high-treble solo--and the disc's liner notes give an unbelievably lengthy and rambling discussion of the work's history and various transformations, along with information about the liturgical significance of Tenebrae, the Miserere text, choral singing in Rome, and descriptions of the other pieces on the disc. The best bet here is just to listen to the music--it speaks very well for itself. --David VernierGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( A ) > Allegri, Gregorio
- ( G ) > Gesualdo, Carlo
- Gabrieli, Giovanni
- ( M ) > Monteverdi, Claudio
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( M ) > Monteverdi Choir
- ( W ) > Westminster Abbey Choir
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > General
- Early Music > Sacred & Religious
- Vocal & Song
- General
- Sacred & Religious > General
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Vocal Non-Opera > Chants
- Motets
- Oratorios
- Psalms
- Monteverdi, Claudio - Works by Monteverdi
- Featured Composers, A-Z - egri, Gregorio - Works by Allegri
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