Nicolas Gombert: Magnificat I; Salve Regina; Credo; Tulerunt Dominum
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Composer: Nicolas GombertConductor: Jeremy Summerly
Performer: Oxford Camerata
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-01-17
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Tolerunt Dominum Meum
- Magnificat Primi Toni
- Credo In Unum Deum
- Super Flumina Babylonis
- Media Vita In Morte Sumus
- Salve Regina (Plainchant Mode 1)
- Salve Regina (Diversi Diversa Orant)
- Epitaphium (In Josquinum A Prato)
Music reviews of Nicolas Gombert: Magnificat I; Salve Regina; Credo; Tulerunt Dominum
Music Review: Too Bad We Can't Hybridize Choirs!
Rating: 5 Stars
For this performance, the Oxford Camerata included sixteen singers, the sopranos and altos all women. However, since most of the music on the CD is 8-part, they were singing two-on-a-part most of the time, and that, dear reader is how it should be, unless the voices are vituosic enough to sing one-on-a-part. The result is that this is one of the Camerata's best recordings, perhaps their best ever. Their sheer 'sound' is beautifully full and warm, their tuning is transparent (i.e. good), and their ensemble is pointed. Gombert's music can 'survive' a lot of fullness of timbre; unlike his predecessor Josquin, Gombert wasn't disposed to express his musical thoughts by 'thinning' the parts, inserting duets and trios, etc. When he wrote for six or eight voices, all the singers were singing most of the time. Of the various available recordings of Gombert, this is probably the one that sets the standard of excellence of vocal production.
On the down side, however, there's a lack of rhythmic boldness about this and almost every performance by the Oxford Camerata. It's not that every tempo on this CD is too slow, but when taken one after another, the whole is somewhat sober-sided. It has to be the conductor, Jeremy Summerly. I get the feeling that he's never noticed a 'cross-rhythm' or failed to notice a bar-line. But the problem is that There Are NO Bar-lines in This Music! The lack of rhythmic insight doesn't ruin this performance by any means; it's still a treasure. But ...
... recently I reviewed a CD titled "Vivat Rex!" -- motets by Jean Mouton, a composer almost contemporary with Nicolas Gombert (1495-1560) -- sung by an American 'community chorus' of fourteen men, who call themselves "The Suspicious Cheese Lords." Singing with more voices on a part, the Lords produce a lot less 'sound' than the Camerata; their timbres are just not as rich, and no amount of electronic jugglery could make their overall vocal production as good as the British professionals of the Camerata. Nevertheless, I gave their CD a five-star rating also, because of their very clear and energetic rhythmic interpretations. They nailed every cross-rhythm, every prolation, every 'coloration', every sesquialtera. You need not understand those technical terms to be able to hear the rhythmic excitement of their performance.
As I said above, too bad we can't hybridize choirs, taking the pure voices of the Camerata and the intelligent phrasing/rhythm of the Cheese Lords! We'd have a choir for the ages.
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