Sacred and Profane

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Label
Coro
Release Date
March 2, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BRITTEN CORNYSH
    • PERFORMER
      The Sixteen, Christophers
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 02, 2018
    • UPC
      828021615924
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      COR16159
    • LABEL
      Coro
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. A Hymn to the Virgin

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    2. My love she mourn'th

      Composer: William Cornysh

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    3. Hymn to St. Cecilia, Op. 27

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    4. Salve regina

      Composer: William Cornysh

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    5. Advance Democracy

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    6. Ave Maria mater Dei

      Composer: William Cornysh

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    7. Woefully Arrayed

      Composer: William Cornysh

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    8. Ah Robin, gentle Robin

      Composer: William Cornysh

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    9. No. 1. St. Godric's Hymn

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    10. No. 2. I mon waxe wod

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    11. No. 3. Lenten is come

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    12. No. 4. The long night

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    13. No. 5. Yif ic of luve can

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    14. No. 6. Carol

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    15. No. 7. Ye that pasen by

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    16. No. 8. A death

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers


Over four centuries separate these two representatives of English music at it's finest. William Cornysh and Benjamin Britten were prolific in both sacred and secular music. Cornysh is actually two people, often confused with one another and quite possibly father and son. The matter of telling which man wrote which works is impossible to settle, so for the purpose of this album they are linked as one. So whether it be the Elder or the Younger, we are fortunate that they not only excelled at writing complex and adventurous antiphons for the church but also beautiful secular songs for the Tudor court. For Britten writing in the 20th-century life was very different; he is a composer who encompassed so many facets of music excelling in opera, solo song and all manners of vocal and instrumental music. This album looks at the way these composers mixed sacred with secular. Whilst Cornysh's sacred music is elaborate and rhythmically complicated, his secular music is simple yet subtly evocative. Britten makes constant demands on vocal artistry best displayed in the last work he ever wrote for unaccompanied voices, Sacred and Profane.