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  Les Voix Baroques ACD2 2503 |
The composers represented on this disc encompass a range from late medieval England and Renaissance Italy through Baroque Germany and France, to 20th century Canada.
Les Voix Baroques is a vocal chamber ensemble founded by countertenor Matthew White, and including a variable membership of some of the finest early music professionals in the world today. Les Voix Baroques' 2007 ATMA release, Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri [ACD2 2563], received great critical attention world-wide, including 5 Stars from the leading international Early Music journal, GOLDBERG [UK / Spain].
Les Voix Baroques are joined on this recording by Hélène Plouffe and Cristina Zacharias, baroque violins; Margaret Little, baroque viola and viola da gamba; Amanda Keesmaat, baroque cello; Matthew Jennejohn and Douglas Kirk, cornetti; Maxine Eilander, harp; Stephen Stubbs, lute and baroque guitar; Hank Knox, organ and haprsichord.
Produced by Johanne Goyette, and recorded at the church of St-Augustin de Mirabel (Québec) , March 2007. St-Augustin is one of ATMA founder Goyette's favourite recording venues.
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Roland de Lassus (v.1532-1594) 1 :: Motet - Veni in hortum meum (Sacrae cantiones, 1562) [3:28] For 5 voices and basso continuo [DM-MW-CB-ST-RM] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (v.1525-1594) 2 :: Motet - Osculetur me osculo oris sui (Mottetorum liber quartus ex Canticis canticorum, 1584) [3:08] For 5 voices a cappella [DM-MW-CB-ST-RM] Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) 3 :: Concerto - Anima mea liquefacta est SWV 263 (Symphonae Sacrae I, 1629) [4:21] 4 :: Concerto - Adjuro vos SWV 264 (Symphonae Sacrae I, 1629) [4:26] For 2 tenors, 2 cornetts and basso continuo [CB-ST] Domenico Mazzochi (1592-1665) 5 :: Dialogo della cantica (Musiche sacre e morali, 1640) [7:01] For soprano and echo soprano, 4 voices and basso continuo [DM*-CW-MW-CB-RM] *SOLO Healey Willan (1880-1968) 6 :: Motet - Rise Up, My love, My Fair One (Three Motets in Honour of Our Lady, 1928) [1:50] For 6 voices a cappella [CW-DM-MW-CB-ST-RM] 7 :: Motet - I Beheld Her, Beautiful as a Dove (Three Motets in Honour of Our Lady, 1928) [2:00] For 4 voices a cappella [CW-MW-CB-RM] William Walton (1902-1983) 8 :: Motet - Set Me as a Seal upon Thine Heart (Dedicated to the Honorable Ivor Guest and Lady Mabel Fox-Strangeways on the occasion of their marriage, 1938) [3:06] For tenor and 6 voices a cappella [CW-DM-MW-CB-ST-RM] Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656) 9 :: Verse anthem - My Beloved Spake (Musica Deo sacra, 1668) [4:49] For 5 voices (soloists and chorus) and bass continuo [DM1-CW2-MW-CB-ST-RM] Heinrich Schütz 10 :: Motet - Ego dormio SWV 63 (Cantiones sacrae, 1625) [4:06] 11 :: Motet - Vulnerasti cor meum SWV 64 (Cantiones sacrae, 1625) [3:31] For 4 voices and bass continuo [DM-MW-CB-RM] Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) 12 :: Petit motet - Dilecti mi H. 436 (maus. s.d.) [4:28] For haute-contre, tenor, bass and basso continuo [CB-ST-RM] Marin Marais (1656-1728) 13 :: Passacaille (Pièces en trio, 1692) [6:49] For 2 violins and basso continuo Marc-Antoine Charpentier 14 :: Antienne - Pulchra es et decora H. 52 (manus., v.1687) [3:03] (<<pour les vêpres de l'Assomption de la Vierge>>) For 2 high trebles, low treble and basso continuo [CW-DM-MW] John Dunstable (v.1390-1453) 15 :: Motet - Quam pulchra es (manus., Codex de Trente, 1440-1480) [2:22] For 3 voices a cappella [CB-ST-RM] Henry Purcell (1659-1695) 16 :: Verse anthem - My Beloved Spake Z. 28 (manus., v.1677) [10:29] For alto, tenor, 2 basses, chorus, strings and bass continuo [DM-MW-CB-ST (basse 1)-RM (basse 2)] |
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