Claudio Monteverdi, The King's Consort, Robert King - The Sacred Music 2
STYLE: Choral RATING OUR PRODUCT CODE: 10252- LABEL: Hyperion CDA67483 FORMAT: CD Album
Reviewed by Steven Whitehead
As soon as this CD arrived I sent an email to the Press Officer at Hyperion to thank her for sending it. I expressed the hope that Volume Two would be as good as the first. Her reply was to the point: "It is." And, dear reader, she is right. So if you enjoyed Volume One we need say little more other than to run through the contents. The focus of this CD is on works to be found in the 1650 publication Messa à Quattro Voci e Salmi. Here we find a glorious Mass-setting and the composer's well-crafted response to the epic "Litany Of Loreto". The third work here with full choir is the five-part "Exultent Caeli", a suitably joyous little work published in 1629. Six soloists, namely Carolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram, Rogers Covey-Crump, Charles Daniels, James Gilchrist and Peter Harvey share out the remaining works: the duets "Venite, Siccientes", "Ego Dormio", "Cantate Domino" and "O Beatae Viae" and the solo pieces "Currite Populi" and "Laudate Dominum". It would be wrong to praise one singer above any of the others, as all are excellent, as are both the Choir of the King's Consort and the Consort too.
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