Notes and Editorial Reviews
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
Most of the material is sung a capella, though a few pieces are accompanied by continuo bass, in the form of Sylvain Bergeron’s theorbo, Karen Kadevarek’s cello and Réjean Poirier’s positive organ. The thirteen voices of the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal blend well, are attentive to detail and sustain the occasional solo duties very decently. Just occasionally a little more emotional intensity wouldn’t have gone amiss, but all of these performances enable us to enjoy some complex and rewarding music.
The recorded sound has – as it needs to – a generous but focused sense of space, whether heard on a standard
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player or an SACD model. Of course, this is one kind of music for which SACD is particularly well suited.
- Glyn Pursglove,
MusicWeb International
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Works on This Recording
1.
Super flumina Babylonis by Luca Marenzio
Conductor:
Christopher Jackson
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; Italy
Length: 5 Minutes 59 Secs.
2.
Lamentabatur Jacob by Luca Marenzio
Conductor:
Christopher Jackson
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; Italy
Length: 4 Minutes 17 Secs.
3.
Laetatus sum by Tomás Luis de Victoria
Conductor:
Christopher Jackson
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1583
Length: 6 Minutes 52 Secs.
4.
Laudate pueri by Giovanni Palestrina
Conductor:
Christopher Jackson
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal
Period: Renaissance
Written: Italy
Length: 6 Minutes 53 Secs.
5.
Jubilate Deo by Giovanni Palestrina
Conductor:
Christopher Jackson
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; Italy
Length: 3 Minutes 43 Secs.
6.
Angelus Domini: Gloria by Orazio Benevoli
Conductor:
Christopher Jackson
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal
Period: Baroque
Written: 1643; Italy
Length: 56 Minutes 38 Secs.
7.
Terra tremuit by Giovanni Giorgi
Conductor:
Christopher Jackson
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal
Period: Baroque
Length: 4 Minutes 23 Secs.
8.
Haec dies by Giovanni Giorgi
Conductor:
Christopher Jackson
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal
Period: Baroque
Length: 4 Minutes 38 Secs.
9.
Veni sancte spiritus by Giovanni Giorgi
Conductor:
Christopher Jackson
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal
Period: Baroque
Length: 3 Minutes 30 Secs.
10.
Beata es Virgo Maria by Vincenzo Ugolini
Conductor:
Christopher Jackson
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal
Period: Renaissance
Written: Italy
Length: 4 Minutes 22 Secs.
11.
Exultate omnes by Vincenzo Ugolini
Conductor:
Christopher Jackson
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal
Period: Renaissance
Written: Italy
Length: 5 Minutes 48 Secs.
12.
Quae est ista by Vincenzo Ugolini
Conductor:
Christopher Jackson
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal
Period: Renaissance
Written: Italy
Length: 5 Minutes 25 Secs.
Featured Sound Samples
Super flumina Babylonis (Marenzio)
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