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Penitence & Lamentation (2023)

Byrd Ensemble, directed by Markdavin Obenza

SRCD12

Release Date: November 3, 2023 (CD released by end of November 2023)

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THE BYRD ENSEMBLE
Markdavin Obenza, director

 

01 Nicolas Gombert - Lugebat David Absalon

02 William Byrd - Domine secundum actum meum

03 Thomas Tallis - In jejunio et fletu

04 Thomas Tallis - Absterge Domine

05 Thomas Crecquillon - Pater peccavi

06 Robert Ramsey - How are the mighty fallen

07 William Byrd - Emendemus in melius

08 William Byrd - Ye sacred muses

09 William Byrd - Ne irascaris Domine

10 Nico Muhly - Fallings 

11 Robert Carver - O bone Jesu

 

ABOUT THE MUSIC

 

For our 20th Anniversary season, we are releasing a new recording of Renaissance motets on October 27, 2023. In honor of 400 years since the death of our namesake, William Byrd, the album will also include the world-premiere recording of Fallings by American composer Nico Muhly, commissioned by the Byrd Ensemble.

 

Muhly says, “Fallings takes small melodic fragments and large harmonic building-blocks from the second part of Ne irascaris Domine — Civitas Sancti Tui, and explores them through repetition and mutation: sometimes quite subtle and other times dramatic. I tried to imitate Byrd’s contrasting textures of imitative counterpoint and hymn-like chords. The ‘burning of fire’ uses traditional word-painting, and the end obsesses over Byrd’s chords on Sion deserta (Zion has become a wilderness) on the words ‘O Lord, thou art our father.’”

 

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Penitence & Lamentation (2023)

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