If ye love me (Thomas Tallis) – The Gesualdo Six
If ye love me by Thomas Tallis (c.1505–1585), recorded at low pitch by members of The Gesualdo Six, directed by Owain Park.
This track comes from The Gesualdo Six’s first album, ‘English Motets’, a programme linking two hundred years of music from medieval and Tudor England (available here: http://bit.ly/2Fmp8Od).
“Weavers of rich and plangent aural tapestries, The Gesualdo Six meld style and substance with beguiling sure-footedness. An auspicious debut.” – BBC Music Magazine
“The fine-grained texture of solo voices allows us to savour the amazing harmonic pungency of English sacred music, which at times seems almost modernist. It is a wonderful achievement.” – The Telegraph
- - -
If ye love me, keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father,
and he will give you another comforter, that he may bide with you for ever,
e’vn the spirit of truth.
John 14: 15-17
- - -
About the music
While all composers in Tudor England were flexible to the period’s shifting religious requirements, none was quite as skilful at reinvention as Tallis, whose music remains absolutely consistent in its quality, even while his style changes dramatically. Intelligibility of text is all in ‘If ye love me’, and one whose guiding principle seems to be Archbishop Cranmer’s edict that sacred music should use only one note per syllable. Tallis opens the work with a clear declamation of the text, emphasizing the word ‘commandments’ and leaving his listener in no doubt of the importance placed on learning and teaching in the new language of the Church. Despite continuing in a four-part polyphonic texture, none of the clarity of text is lost, with beautiful descending phrases passed around the voices.
[Programme note: Owain Park © 2018]
- - -
The Gesualdo Six | Owain Park
www.thegesualdosix.co.uk
Видео If ye love me (Thomas Tallis) – The Gesualdo Six канала The Gesualdo Six
This track comes from The Gesualdo Six’s first album, ‘English Motets’, a programme linking two hundred years of music from medieval and Tudor England (available here: http://bit.ly/2Fmp8Od).
“Weavers of rich and plangent aural tapestries, The Gesualdo Six meld style and substance with beguiling sure-footedness. An auspicious debut.” – BBC Music Magazine
“The fine-grained texture of solo voices allows us to savour the amazing harmonic pungency of English sacred music, which at times seems almost modernist. It is a wonderful achievement.” – The Telegraph
- - -
If ye love me, keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father,
and he will give you another comforter, that he may bide with you for ever,
e’vn the spirit of truth.
John 14: 15-17
- - -
About the music
While all composers in Tudor England were flexible to the period’s shifting religious requirements, none was quite as skilful at reinvention as Tallis, whose music remains absolutely consistent in its quality, even while his style changes dramatically. Intelligibility of text is all in ‘If ye love me’, and one whose guiding principle seems to be Archbishop Cranmer’s edict that sacred music should use only one note per syllable. Tallis opens the work with a clear declamation of the text, emphasizing the word ‘commandments’ and leaving his listener in no doubt of the importance placed on learning and teaching in the new language of the Church. Despite continuing in a four-part polyphonic texture, none of the clarity of text is lost, with beautiful descending phrases passed around the voices.
[Programme note: Owain Park © 2018]
- - -
The Gesualdo Six | Owain Park
www.thegesualdosix.co.uk
Видео If ye love me (Thomas Tallis) – The Gesualdo Six канала The Gesualdo Six
Показать
Комментарии отсутствуют
Информация о видео
Другие видео канала
If ye love me - Tallis - Tenebrae conducted by Nigel ShortAve verum corpus (Byrd) The Gesualdo Six at Ely CathedralMusic for a while (Purcell) - The King's Singers & Jakub Józef OrlińskiLibera nos, salva nos II (John Sheppard) – The Gesualdo SixSicut Cervus – PalestrinaO sacred head, sore wounded (Passion Chorale)"If Ye Love Me" Thomas Tallis @ The Royal Wedding of Prince Harry & Meghan Markle (2018)"Be Still, My Soul" by C. Rand Matheson (VOCES8)Es Ist ein Ros' entsprungen (Praetorius) The Gesualdo Six at Ely CathedralVOCES8: 'Ne Irascaris Domine' & 'Civitas Sancti Tui' by William ByrdT Tallis, If Ye Love Me, Vox LuminisOs justi - Bruckner - Tenebrae conducted by Nigel ShortThe King's Singers - If Ye Love MeAbendlied (Rheinberger) The Gesualdo Six at Ely Cathedral #TheWayT. Tallis "If ye love me" - Jakub Józef OrlińskiVOCES8: Jesus bleibet meine Freude - JS BachVOCES8: Ave Maria - Franz BieblIn Passione positus Iesus (Francisco Guerrero)Veni, Veni Emmanuel - The Gesualdo Six