See, see the Word is incarnate - RES10295

See, see the Word is incarnate: Choral & instrumental music by Gibbons, Tomkins & Weelkes

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Total playing time [70:51]

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The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Newe Vialles
Orpheus Britannicus Vocal Consort
Andrew Arthur (conductor & solo organ)

In succession to the Tudors, the flourishing court culture of the Stuart royal dynasty fostered one of the greatest periods in the history of British music. Director and organist Andrew Arthur unites his forces in this compelling programme of works by three composers who flourished in the Jacobean period – Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes and Thomas Tomkins – around the theme of the Word of God.

The choral items on this disc exemplify a rhetorically-aware sense of what it means to sound the Word enriched with music in order to teach, move and delight.

Album Booklet (PDF)

Tracklist

Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625)
1. This is the record of John

Thomas Tomkins (1572–1656)
2. Voluntary in C

Orlando Gibbons
3. ‘Short’ Evening Service: Magnificat

Thomas Weelkes (1576–1623)
4. In Nomine a5, Vdgs 1

Orlando Gibbons
5. ‘Short’ Evening Service: Nunc dimittis

Thomas Tomkins
6. A Substantial Verse
7. My shepherd is the living Lord
8. Fantasia VII a3, Vdgs 9
9. Verse in a

Orlando Gibbons
10. O Lord, in thy wrath rebuke me not

Thomas Weelkes
11. Voluntary I
12. Evening Verse Service ‘for Trebles’: Magnificat

Thomas Tomkins
13. Voluntary in D

Thomas Weelkes
14. Evening Verse Service ‘for Trebles’: Nunc dimittis

Orlando Gibbons
15. Fantasia a4 ‘for the great dooble bass’, Vdgs 1

Thomas Tomkins
16. Voluntary in a

Orlando Gibbons
17. See, see, the Word is incarnate

“

'The general effect is impressive and warmly resonant [...] The great musical treat on this disc is the playing of the viol consort, Newe Vialles. They are simply brilliant in Gibbons’s Fantasia a 4 and Tomkins’s Fantasia VII a 3.'

- BBC Music Magazine

'The general effect is impressive and warmly resonant [...] The great musical treat on this disc is the playing of the viol consort, Newe Vialles. They are simply brilliant in Gibbons’s Fantasia a 4 and Tomkins’s Fantasia VII a 3.'
BBC Music Magazine

'This is a very enjoyable programme combining voices and instruments in works by Jacobean composers who contributed so much to the English church music repertoire. The various musical forces drawn together for this production breathe new life into this music from centuries past in the fine performances collected here.'
Lark Reviews

'Andrew Arthur sets a pace that is refreshingly unhurried, giving the massed voices a chance for their individual lines to be heard in the generous acoustic.'
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Credits
© 2021 Resonus Limited
Ⓟ 2021 Resonus Limited
Catalogue No. RES10295
Producer: Andrew Arthur
Engineer & editor: Paul Crichton
Executive producer: Adam Binks
EAN: 5060262793190
Cover image: Detail from a portrait of James VI and I (c.1605) attributed to John de Critz (1551–1642)
Release date: 1 October 2021