Sacred And Profane: Music By Benjamin Britten & William Cornysh
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN / WILLIAM CORNYSH
Sacred And Profane: Music By Benjamin Britten & William Cornysh
Harry Christophers & The Sixteen
[ Coro / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 23 March 2018
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William Cornysh and Benjamin Britten were prolific writers of both sacred and secular music. Cornysh is actually two people, quite possibly father and son. Both were court musicians who excelled at writing complex and adventurous antiphons for the church, as well as beautiful secular songs for the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. As far as who wrote what is concerned, the truth may never be known and so here they are linked as one. Britten is celebrated for his ability to mix sacred and secular expertly in order to showcase the voice in all its multifaceted glory. A perfect example of this is Sacred and Profane, where he gives us a fascinating mixture of the devotional and the rumbustiously secular. The final song 'A death' is a wicked blend of horror and gallows humour far removed from the melancholic canon Ah, Robin, gentle Robin by Cornysh.
From previous released material on earlier Coro recordings.
"Sacred and Profane is a sublime exaltation of the human voice in formal and more adventurous settings. The work of Cornysh (father and son) and Britten takes flight in these voices. Christophers and The Sixteen bring new renown to the Cornysh music, marked by their more old-fashioned melodic style and proto-madrigalian manner, as revealed in lucid and dynamic performances of Salve Regina and the celebrated Ave Regina, Mater Dei. The Sixteen's voices are clear and pure, and this acoustic gives the music the right amount of bloom." TheWholeNote
Tracks:
1 BRITTEN - Hymn to the Virgin
2 CORNYSH - My love she mourn'th
3 BRITTEN - Hymn to Saint Cecilia
4 CORNYSH - Salve Regina
5 BRITTEN - Advanced Democracy
6 CORNYSH - Ave Maria, Mater Dei
7 CORNYSH - Woefully array'd
8 CORNYSH - Ah Robin, gentle Robin
BRITTEN: Sacred and Profane
9 St Godric's Hymn
10 I mon waxe wod
11 Lenten is come
12 The long night
13 Yif ic of luve can
14 Carol
15 Ye that pasen by
16 A death
