When Sleep Comes - Meditations for Voices & Saxophone / Forshaw, Short, Tenebrae

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Label
Signum Classics
Release Date
April 15, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Traditional, Hildegard von Bingen, Antoine Brumel, Christian Forshaw, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Francis
    • PERFORMER
      Christian Forshaw, Victoria Meteyard, Tenebrae, Nigel Short
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 15, 2022
    • UPC
      635212070826
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD708
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Drop, drop slow tears (arr. C. Forshaw for saxophone and vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Orlando Gibbons

      Ensemble: Tenebrae

      Performer: Christian Forshaw

      Conductor: Nigel Short

    2. In paradisum

      Composer: Christian Forshaw

      Ensemble: Tenebrae

      Performer: Christian Forshaw

      Conductor: Nigel Short

    3. O vos imitatores excelse (arr. N. Short for saxophone and vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Hildegard von Bingen

      Ensemble: Tenebrae

      Performer: Victoria Meteyard, Christian Forshaw

      Conductor: Nigel Short

    4. Te lucis ante terminum (arr. C. Forshaw for saxophone and vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Tenebrae

      Performer: Christian Forshaw

      Conductor: Nigel Short

    5. Sancte Deus, sancte fortis

      Composer: Thomas Tallis

      Ensemble: Tenebrae

      Conductor: Nigel Short

    6. Psalm 121, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills" (arr. C. Forshaw for saxophone and vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Henry Walford Davies

      Ensemble: Tenebrae

      Performer: Christian Forshaw

      Conductor: Nigel Short

    7. O nata lux de lumine (arr. C. Forshaw for saxophone and vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Thomas Tallis

      Ensemble: Tenebrae

      Performer: Christian Forshaw

      Conductor: Nigel Short

    8. Renouncement (version for saxophone and vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Christian Forshaw

      Ensemble: Tenebrae

      Performer: Christian Forshaw

      Conductor: Nigel Short

    9. Popule meus

      Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria

      Ensemble: Tenebrae

      Conductor: Nigel Short

    10. Night Prayer

      Composer: Owain Park

      Ensemble: Tenebrae

      Conductor: Nigel Short

    11. Te lucis ante terminum (festal) (arr. C. Forshaw for saxophone and vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Thomas Tallis

      Ensemble: Tenebrae

      Performer: Christian Forshaw

      Conductor: Nigel Short

    12. Abide with me (arr. C. Forshaw for saxophone and vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Henry Francis Lyte, William Henry Monk

      Ensemble: Tenebrae

      Performer: Christian Forshaw

      Conductor: Nigel Short

    13. Lamentations of Jeremiah: Heth. Cogitavit Dominus

      Composer: Antoine Brumel

      Ensemble: Tenebrae

      Conductor: Nigel Short


Virtuoso saxophonist Christian Forshaw is joined by a consort of Tenebrae singers, in an ethereal sequence of penitential settings for Passiontide. Combining elements of ancient and modern to stunning effect, Forshaw and Tenebrae bring new colors and context to music by Gibbons, Tallis, and Hildegard von Bingen in a series of new arrangements and compositions.

Described as “phenomenal” (The Times) and “devastatingly beautiful” (Gramophone Magazine), award-winning choir Tenebrae is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, renowned for its passion and precision. Award-winning conductor Nigel Short has earned widespread acclaim for his recording and live performance work with leading orchestras and ensembles across the world.

REVIEW

The disc is divided between original music by Christian Forshaw and his arrangements of music by other composers. The original music is solid, direct, and very listenable-to: his setting of the In Paradisum from the service of committal sets the text with plainsong directness, while the soprano sounds like an additional member of chorus rather than an added spiritual presence. In fact, the delight of much of the disc is that it’s sometimes impossible to tell whether you’re listening to the saxophone or a soprano voice.

In the music by composers other than Mr. Forshaw, it’s difficult to ignore the ghost of Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble in their famous (and famously successful) Officium of 1994. But while there are undeniable echoes to and fro, Tenebrae and Forshaw put their own mark on what they do.

-- MusicWeb International (Simon Thompson)