Rihards Dubra: Geistliche Chorwerke "Hail,Queen of Heaven" (CD)

Rihards Dubra (geb. 1964)

Geistliche Chorwerke "Hail,Queen of Heaven"

Rupert Gough

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Rihards Dubra (geb. 1964): Geistliche Chorwerke "Hail,Queen of Heaven", CD

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Oculus non vidit; Ave Maria I & III; Miserere mei; Hail, Queen of Heaven; Duo Seraphim; Felix namque es; Stetit Angelus; Gloria Patri; Missa de Spirito Sancto; Hodie Christus natus est; Ubi caritas

Künstler: Royal Holloway Choir, Rupert Gough
Label: Hyperion, DDD, 2008
Erscheinungstermin: 1.11.2009

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Rihards Dubra, born in Riga in 1964, spent his early years under a Soviet regime for which any public performances of sacred music constituted religious propaganda and were not permissible. During his studies with Adolfs Skulte at the Latvian State Conservatory, Dubra began to test the boundaries of political acceptance in the last remaining years of Soviet rule. He has now emerged from the largely secular tradition of choral music-making in Latvia as a distinctive voice, that of a composer devoting himself exclusively to the composition of sacred music. The purity of this endeavour is one that Dubra has admired in the work of so-called ‘holy minimalists’ such as Arvo Pärt and John Tavener. Dubra prefers to describe his own music as ‘a style of meditation’—one instilled with the essence of the Middle Ages ‘through the view of a man who lives in the twentieth century’.

This recording represents a selection of pieces, from early experimentation to fully formed style—a style that fuses minimalism and neo-romantic melodies with the inflections and philosophy of Gregorian, Medieval and Renaissance music. The Choir of Royal Holloway is directed by Rupert Gough in this their debut recording for Hyperion.

Rezensionen

'Royal Holloway's fabulous choristers and their inspired conductor convey the purity and spiritual fervour of Dubra's ear-catching output' (Classic FM Magazine)

'Sound moments of raptural texture (such as the word 'Christ' in Hail, Queen of Heaven, by the far the most substantial piece on this programme) … Dubra's natural home is a mood of controlled meditation and lyrical clarity … This style is well handled by the Choir of Royal Holloway, whose clean-edged sound, under Gough's sympathetic direction, warms to the generous acoustic of St Alban's, Holborn' (Gramophone)