The Deer's Cry: The Sixteen sing Pärt, Byrd & Tallis

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ARVO PART / WILLIAM BYRD / THOMAS TALLIS
The Deer's Cry: The Sixteen sing Pärt, Byrd & Tallis
The Sixteen & Harry Christophers

[ Coro / CD ]

Release Date: Sunday 20 November 2016

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Whilst coming from very different eras, William Byrd and Arvo Pärt are both considered masters of sacred music despite having faced considerable persecution for their work. This programme presents six of William Byrd's works from the Cantiones Sacrae including the monumental Tribue, Domine, and the mighty eight-voice motet Ad Dominum cum tribularer. The three works by Arvo Pärt speak in his unmistakable voice, with its unique blend of ancient and modern, and include his mesmerising Nunc dimittis which is crafted in his bell-like 'tinitinnabuli' style.

"[The Deer's Cry] is a deceptively easy-looking piece on the page, but keeping its halting, minimalist ground-rhythm pulsing meaningfully, and building the slow-burn crescendo over several minutes requires advanced levels of technical proficiency. That, of course, is what The Sixteen majors in, and its performance combines a scrupulous accuracy with a pregnant sense of ritual and contemplative mystery" BBC Music

"Those favouring sonic beauty above all else will find 'The Deer's Cry' an essential addition. Larger forces and fuller voices give The Sixteen a textural depth Stile Antico and The Tallis Scholars neither seek nor attain, thickening the sound without obscuring the architectural workings of these complex pieces of polyphony...it's hard to wish greater restraint of such glorious singing." Gramophone

"It's fascinating to compare Tallis and Pärt's different but complementary treatments of the Woman with the Alabaster Box parable. Music and singing of hypnotic beauty." Sunday Times

Tracks:

Tallis / Byrd
Miserere nostri

Byrd:
Diliges Dominum
Christe qui Lux
Miserere mihi, Domini
Tribue, Domine
Emendemus in melius
O Lux beata Trinitas
Ad Dominum cum tribularer
Laetentur coeli

Pärt:
The Deer's Cry
Nunc dimittis
The Woman With The Alabaster Box

Tallis:
When Jesus went into Simon the Pharisee's house