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In Nomine II

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Details

Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
Fretwork
Format
CD
Label
Signum Classics
Released
Nov 15, 2019
Catalog #
SIGCD576
UPC
635212057629

About

Over thirty years ago, Fretwork made it's first recording - well, technically speaking it was the second album to be recorded, but the first to be released - and it was called 'In nomine', which consisted mainly of 16th-century examples of this remarkable instrumental form. While this isn't an anniversary of that release, we want to look both back to that first release and forward, to bring the genre up to date. There were several examples of the In nomine and related forms that we didn't or couldn't record in 1987, and this album seeks to complete the project. The form was created unwittingly by John Taverner (1490-1545). His 6-part mass, Gloria tibi Trinitas, is based on the plainchant of that name. In the Sanctus, at the words Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini (Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord), the six-part texture is pared down to two and three parts; and then, with the words in nomine Domini, Taverner makes, for the only time in the mass, a complete statement of the cantus firmus, accompanied by three voices. This four-parts section - very beautiful as it is - must have struck contemporaries as some kind of perfection, to be used as a template, to be emulated and copied. And then those copies were copied and changed again.

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 Slow 08:12
    Track
    1
    Title
    Slow
    Duration
    08:12
    Composer
    Nico Muhly
    Ensemble
    Fretwork
  2. 2 In nomine No. 4 a 7 02:29
    Track
    2
    Title
    In nomine No. 4 a 7
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Robert Parsons
    Ensemble
    Fretwork
  3. 3 In nomine No. 5 a 7 03:03
    Track
    3
    Title
    In nomine No. 5 a 7
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    Robert Parsons
    Ensemble
    Fretwork
  4. 4 In nomine in 11/4 05:37
    Track
    4
    Title
    In nomine in 11/4
    Duration
    05:37
    Composer
    John Bull
    Ensemble
    Fretwork
  5. 5 Proporcions to the minimum 02:31
    Track
    5
    Title
    Proporcions to the minimum
    Duration
    02:31
    Composer
    John Baldwin
    Ensemble
    Fretwork
  6. 6 Upon In Nomine 1592 01:36
    Track
    6
    Title
    Upon In Nomine 1592
    Duration
    01:36
    Composer
    John Baldwin
    Ensemble
    Fretwork
  7. 7 In Nomine 1606 02:19
    Track
    7
    Title
    In Nomine 1606
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    John Baldwin
    Ensemble
    Fretwork
  8. 8 In Nomine No. 1 a 6 03:45
    Track
    8
    Title
    In Nomine No. 1 a 6
    Duration
    03:45
    Composer
    Alfonso Ferrabosco II
    Ensemble
    Fretwork
  9. 9 In Nomine No. 2 a 6 04:07
    Track
    9
    Title
    In Nomine No. 2 a 6
    Duration
    04:07
    Composer
    Alfonso Ferrabosco II
    Ensemble
    Fretwork
  10. 10 In Nomine a 6 05:47
    Track
    10
    Title
    In Nomine a 6
    Duration
    05:47
    Composer
    Alfonso Ferrabosco II
    Ensemble
    Fretwork
  11. 11 In Nomine after Purcell 09:16
    Track
    11
    Title
    In Nomine after Purcell
    Duration
    09:16
    Composer
    Gavin Bryars
    Ensemble
    Fretwork
  12. 12 In Nomine a 5 03:19
    Track
    12
    Title
    In Nomine a 5
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    John Ward
    Ensemble
    Fretwork
  13. 13 In Nomine, "Reporte" 01:43
    Track
    13
    Title
    In Nomine, "Reporte"
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Christopher Tye
    Ensemble
    Fretwork
  14. 14 In Nomine, "Howld fast" 01:09
    Track
    14
    Title
    In Nomine, "Howld fast"
    Duration
    01:09
    Composer
    Christopher Tye
    Ensemble
    Fretwork
  15. 15 In Nomine, "Re la re" 01:22
    Track
    15
    Title
    In Nomine, "Re la re"
    Duration
    01:22
    Composer
    Christopher Tye
    Ensemble
    Fretwork
  16. 16 In Nomine a 7 in G Minor, Z. 747, "Dorian" 03:35
    Track
    16
    Title
    In Nomine a 7 in G Minor, Z. 747, "Dorian"
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Henry Purcell
    Ensemble
    Fretwork