Stephen Rice: The Brabant Ensemble
Release Date: 01 January 2011
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571178486
Genres: Classical Early Music
Description
The Brabant Ensemble under their director Stephen Rice presents music for the dark time of the year.
Its latest disc of 16th-century polyphony features the extraordinary compositional gifts of Clemens non Papa, put to the service of the Requiem Mass and a selection of motets on a pentitential theme. Within this general aspect of solemnity can be found countless shades of expression and emotion.
Despite the popularity of the composer’s music during his lifetime, Clemens is a somewhat marginal figure today and many of these motets have never been recorded before. Yet, listening to this music today, one is immediately enthralled by its opulence and harmonic lushness, very different from the occasionally sterile polyphony of some of the composer’s contemporaries. The Brabant Ensemble’s fresh, uncluttered and sincere performances truly bring this glorious music to life.
Tracklisting
Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nir Kabaretti
The Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice
Steven Isserlis
The Nash Ensemble
MultiPiano Ensemble, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Ivor Bolton
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Marc-Andre Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Gothic Voices / Christopher Page
Stephen Rice: The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice: The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice: The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice: The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice: The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice: The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice: The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice: The Brabant Ensemble
