VOCES8: ‚Ne Irascaris Domine‘ & ‚Civitas Sancti Tui‘ by William Byrd

VOCES8 performs William Byrd’s double motet ‘Ne Irascaris Domine’ and ‘Civitas Sancti Tui’ in the Gresham Centre in London.

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VOCES8: Jesus bleibet meine Freude – JS Bach

VOCES8 collaborates with Nick Deutsch (Oboe) and Alexander Hamilton (Organ) to record from ‚Jesus bleibet meine Freude‘ from the cantata ‚Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147‘. The recording was made at St John the Evangelist Church in Islington, London and features on VOCES8’s 15th Anniversary album, ‚After Silence‘ (www.voces8.com/aftersilence).

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Gregorian Chant

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Riley Lee 尺八 O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti – Hildegard of Bingen – Short meditations on the shakuhachi

The music was composed originally for voice. It was sung within the context of Christian observances. It was composed by a female Catholic mystic and magistra (spiritual teacher) living in the 12th century in what is now Germany. Here it is performed on a bamboo flute, which developed in Japan 500 years later, in the 17th century, as a mediative tool within the Zen Buddhism tradition. The performer is a male of Chinese/Irish/English ancestry, born in Texas in the mid 1950s and living in Australia. The recording was made in the 21st century, nearly one thousand years after Hildegard composed the song. And yet…. it works!

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Nikolaas Gombert: O Domine Jesu Christe – Von Beauty Farm

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𝔏𝔲𝔡𝔦 𝔖𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔱𝔦 𝔑𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔩𝔞𝔦 – Thomas Binkley, Barbara Thornton, Benjamin Bagy, Esther Lamandier… – Ensemble: Studio der Frühen Musik, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and Ensemble Vocale Guillaume Dufay

This is a rare gem from the year 1977. This recording of the „Ludi Sancti Nicolai“ is an incredible work by many of the most important medieval musicians and scholars, including: Thomas Binkley, Andrea VonRamm, Sterling Jones, Barbara Thornton, Benjamin Bagby, Esther Lamandier, Rachid Safir, Richard Levitt, Christian Tréguier.

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Josquin: O Domine Jesu Christe – Odhecaton

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Hoquetus. Medieval European Vocal Music

THEATRE OF VOICES – Ellen Hargis, soprano – Steven Rickards, countertenor – Alan Bennett , tenor – Daniel Carberg, tenor – Paul Elliott, tenor – Michael George, baritone – Sumner Thompson, baritone – Paul Hillier, direction

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Leonhard Lechner (c.1553 – 1606). Sprüche Von Leben Und Tod – Und Andere Neue Teutsche Lieder

Cantus Cölln – Konrad Junghänel

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