Pierre Villette: Choral Music on CD
Choral Music
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
O sacrum convivium op. 27; Hymne a la Vierge op. 24; Attende, Domine op. 45; Notre Pere d'Aix op. 75; Inviolata op. 66; Tu es Petrus op. 29; O quam suavis est op. 76; Salutation angelique op. 20; Strophes polyphones pour le Veni Creator op. 28; Panis angelicus op. 80; O salutaris hostia op. 21; Ave verum op. 3; Salve regina op. 5; O quam amabilis es op. 71; Jesu, dolcis memoria op. 78; Adoro te op. 31; O magnum mysterium op. 53
- Artists:
- James Vivian (Orgel),Holst Singers, Stephen Layton
- Label:
- Hyperion
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2005
- Item number:
- 1600153
- UPC/EAN:
- 0034571175393
- Release date:
- 21.4.2006
Product-Information:
This pioneering new recording—a showcase for the virtuoso talents of the Holst Singers—presents all fifteen of Villette’s unaccompanied choral works and his two motets for choir and organ. Pierre Villette might best be regarded as a stylistic bridge between Debussy and Fauré on the one hand and Poulenc and Messiaen on the other. A world rich in the familiarities of Gregorian chant infuses much of his choral output, while ambitious chromaticisms and textural gestures create effects which are at once spiritual and sensuous. This is the music of private prayer set in the context of an incense-filled Gothic Über-Cathedral. Under their long-standing director of music Stephen Layton, the Holst Singers have established themselves firmly at the top of the country’s league of chamber choirs. This new programme can only enhance their justly deserved reputation.
Rezensionen
'The Holst Singers create great clouds of texture, which surge, form, and melt before your ears … For a bag of musical bonbons à la violette, this disc can't be beaten' (BBC Music Magazine)
'Whether chant-inspired, leaning towards a jazz idiom or chromaticism, the music is an unusual hybrid. The Holst Singers are eloquent and beguiling under the thoughtful direction of Stephen Layton' (Choir and Organ)
'This is simply gorgeous music which has not so much moments of sublime beauty as virtually no passages which aren't, both singly and cumulatively, utterly enchanting' (International Record Review)
'Shades of Messiaen, Duruflé, Gregorian chant and jazz tinge Villette's elegant, unpretentious motets, sensitively performed here' (Classic FM Magazine)
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 O sacrum convivium op. 27
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2 Hymne à la Vierge op. 24
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3 Attende, Domine op. 45
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4 Notre Père d'Aix op. 75
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5 Inviolata op. 66
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6 Tu es Petrus op. 29
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7 O quam suavis est op. 76
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8 Salutation angélique op. 20
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9 Strophes polyphoniques pour le Veni Creator op. 28
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10 Panis angelicus op. 80
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11 O salutaris hostia op. 21
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12 Ave verum op. 3
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13 Salve regina op. 5
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14 O quam amabliis es op. 71
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15 Jesu, dulcix memoria op. 78
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16 Adoro te op. 31
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17 O magnum misterium op. 53
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