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Reviewer: Fabrice Fitch
Hyperion has done Byrd proud: to Davitt Moroney's award-winning traversal of the complete keyboard music we can now add 13 volumes devoted to all of his sacred music. The membership of The Cardinall's Musick has remained virtually unchanged in the many years it's taken to complete. As with the last few volumes, this final instalment combines excerpts from the 1591 Cantiones sacrae and the Propers from Feast ofAll Saints from the later, monumental Gradualia of 1605107. It's a mixture also of the celebratory, as though the singers were congratulating themselves on a job well done - as well they might - and the penitential, concluding with the full ensemble in a finely judged and quite extrovert Infelix ego, surely one of Byrd's most memorable motets.
Yet the same might be said of so
much of this music, the craftsmanship of which is impeccable, and the expression
seemingly so heartfelt (try the marvellously restrained Iustorum animae, for
example). Most of it's taken with trebles on the top lines (as the spirited
opener, Venite exultemus Domino) but when the line-up consists only of men (as
in Domine, non sum dignus and Domine salva nos), the blend of voices is perhaps
still more convincing. There is and has been much to praise, and at a time when
early music ensembles are finding i t increasingly difficult to get concerts or
make records, the commitment of singers and label alike is a cause for
gratitude, perhaps even optimism.
Congratulations to all concerned.
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