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David Skinner – Vespertina Hymnodia: Sacred Music by Claudio Dall’Albero (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:33 minutes | 538 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Sidney Sussex College Choir is one of the centuries-old ensembles at the University of Cambridge established to sing for chapel services.
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The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, David Skinner – Vinders: Missa Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen & Missa Fors seulement (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:41:05 minutes | 1,70 GB | Genre: Classical
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Jheronimus Vinders (fl.1525/6) is best known for the oft-recorded lament on the death of Josquin Desprez (d.1521), O mors inevitabilis, which has led many to presume that he was a disciple or even a pupil of the great master.
Now that his surviving works have recently been published in a modern edition, we are better able to place him among his contemporaries. He belongs to a rather small group of Flemish musicians who form the link between the Josquin generation and that of the mid-sixteenth century, featuring composers such as Clemens non Papa and Crecquillon.
He boasts a wonderfully imaginative ear with a preference for dark sonorities, and his music often surprises and delights. This is the first recording devoted to a selection of Vinders’s works along with the polyphonic models that inspired them.
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Fretwork, David Skinner & Alamire – Byrd 158 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:02:19 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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Byrd’s first song collection was published in 1588. In the following year he writes that he had ‘bene encouraged thereby, to take further paines therein, and to make the pertaker thereof, because I would shew my selfe gratefull to thee for thy loue, and desirous to delight thee with varietie, whereof (in my opinion) no Science is more plentifully adorned then Musicke.’
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David Skinner & Stephen Farr – Hieronymus Praetorius: Motets in 8, 10, 12, 16 & 20 Parts (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:40:20 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
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The large-scale works of Hieronymus Praetorius (1560–1629) owe much to the great polychoral tradition mastered by Hans Leo Hassler and the great Venetian composer Giovanni Gabrieli. Hieronymus does not disappoint with his vivid expression of texts, intricate counterpoint, and sumptuously sonorous and inventive harmonies: this is Northern Germany’s noble response to the Italians, and to the Roman Counter-Reformation.
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The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge & David Skinner – Polyphonia in excelsis – Sacred Music by Claudio Dall’Albero (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:38 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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The celebrated Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge with director David Skinner, present an enticing recital of sacred choral works by the Italian contemporary composer Claudio Dall’Albero.
Drawing on inspiration from earlier forms, polyhony and chant, Dall’Albero’s choral works prove at once both powerful and evocative. Included in this programme of world premiere recordings are two works written specially for the Sidney Sussex Choir (Magnificat) and for this album (the solo organ suite Trittico di Cantabrigia) – the first recording of the college’s new Flentrop organ.
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