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In A Strange Land

Label harmonia mundi

Artists Stile Antico

€29,99 EUR
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In A Strange Land is the first of two new programs from Stile Antico in 2017. Subtitled ‘Elizabethan Composers in Exile’, it explores the difficult and dangerous choices faced by Catholic composers in Elizabethan England. Some elected to seek European exile rather than facing persecution at home. Others paid lip service to the Protestant regime, whilst expressing their spiritual exile in their music. The regime of Queen Elizabeth I dealt harshly with supporters of the old Catholic religion. Torn between obedience and conscience, some of England’s most talented musicians - Philips, Dering and Dowland - chose a life of exile abroad. Others chose to remain in spiritual isolation in England, comparing themselves to the exiled Israelites in Babylon. Amongst them were Robert White, whose five-part Lamentations are one of the glories of English music of any age, and William Byrd, whose anguished Catholic music is referenced in Shakespeare’s enigmatic poem The Phoenix and the Turtle, vividly set by Huw Watkins especially for Stile Antico. Stile Antico

Tracklist

Total time: 01:11:27

1. Flow, my tears
05:10
2. Tristitia et anxietas
10:34
3. Factum est silentium
02:25
4. In this trembling shadow
03:46
5. Gaude Maria virgo
05:22
6. Super flumina Babylonis
05:28
7. Quomodo cantabimus
07:41
8. Regina caeli laetare
02:34
9. The Pheonix and the Turtle
05:46
10. Lamentations
22:41

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Additional Information

Label
harmonia mundi
SKU
902266DI
Qualities
FLAC 96 kHz, FLAC 192 kHz, DSD 64, DSD 128, DSD 256, DXD 24 Bit
Channels
2ch Stereo, 5ch Surround, 2ch Stereo & 5ch Surround
Artists
Stile Antico
Composers
White, Watkins, Philips, Byrd, De Monte, Dowland, Dering
Genres
Classical
Original Recording Format
DSD 64
Release Date
January 11, 2019
  • Not Available on SACD

Reviews

The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times

The dozen voices of Stile Antico give achingly expressive performances of Elizabethan masterpieces, all informed by their composers’ Catholicism, steadfastly maintained under a Protestant regime.
In A Strange Land

In A Strange Land

€29,99 EUR

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