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Gibbons: With a Merrie Noyse (Second Service & Consort Anthems) /Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford · Fretwork · Ives

Orlando Gibbons , Bill Ives , Oxford Magdalen College Choir , Fretwork , Jonathan Hardy , et al. Audio CD
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  • Performer: Jonathan Hardy, Rogers Covey-Crump, Steven Harrold, Peter Harvey, Stephen Connolly
  • Conductor: Bill Ives
  • Composer: Orlando Gibbons
  • Audio CD (10 May 2004)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Harmonia Mundi
  • ASIN: B0001F7UQQ
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 161,707 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. This is the record of John 4:26£0.89
Listen  2. Almighty and everlasting God 2:28£0.89
Listen  3. A Voluntary 2:18£0.89
Listen  4. The Second Service (Morning): Te Deum: Te Deum10:55Album Only
Listen  5. The Second Service (Morning): Jubilate: Jubilate 4:29£0.89
Listen  6. Hymns and Songs for the Church: Song 1 1:26£0.89
Listen  7. A Fancy for Double Organ 5:49£0.89
Listen  8. Hymns and Songs for the Church: Song 9 1:05£0.89
Listen  9. The Second Service (Evening): Magnificat: Magnificat 6:12£0.89
Listen10. The Second Service (Evening): Nunc dimittis: Nunc dimittis 3:39£0.89
Listen11. O clap your hands together 5:57£0.89
Listen12. Great King of Gods 4:35£0.89
Listen13. See, see, the Word is incarnate 6:16£0.89


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5.0 out of 5 stars A Merrie Noyse Indeed, 25 May 2004
This review is from: Gibbons: With a Merrie Noyse (Second Service & Consort Anthems) /Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford · Fretwork · Ives (Audio CD)
Magdalen College Choir's recording of music by Orlando Gibbons provides a fascinating view of the works of a composer who was at the very forefront of the development of early baroque English church music. Long undervalued by record labels, Gibbons' music is performed here with impressive freshness and vitality by Magdalen Choir under the direction of Bill Ives.

The addition of the forces of the viol consort, Fretwork, brings to the music a richness of sonority which provides an insight into the sound which Gibbons may originally have conceived (other recent recordings of this music have opted for organ accompaniment) and demonstrates the rhythmic complexity of his highly nuanced contrapuntal writing to its best effect.

The performance of the soloists shows an innate understanding of the particular nature of Gibbons' vocal writing, demonstrating the importance in this music for the solo lines to be fully integrated into the ensemble and yet stand in relief from it.

What ultimately makes the CD such a success is Bill Ives' mustering of the various forces to create a very tight and dynamic feeling of ensemble, making it the definitive recording of Gibbon's church music.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Lovely Gibbons, 1 April 2011
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This review is from: Gibbons: With a Merrie Noyse (Second Service & Consort Anthems) /Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford · Fretwork · Ives (Audio CD)
This is a lovely CD, well sung and recorded. However, a lot of the tracks are in a much lower key than I am used to singing them in. This is the Record of John is sung by a tenor on this album, whereas it was an alto solo in the music that I have.
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5.0 out of 5 stars exalted music in exalted performances, 17 Nov 2010
By Joycean - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gibbons: With a Merrie Noyse (Second Service & Consort Anthems) /Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford · Fretwork · Ives (Audio CD)
Yes, viols are used instead of organ or brass, which may be inauthentic for full choral performance. Yes, the "lie" of the voices is low. Yes, the top lines are sung by boy trebles... but wasn't that the timbre Gibbons wrote those lines for? In the ways that matter, these performances by the Magdalen College choir are incandescent: all the astonishing variety of Gibbons' choral scoring, the kaleidoscope of different groupings and textures, is clearly displayed and clearly relished. Most importantly, the sheer spiritual joy of this music is rendered with absolute conviction: "O Clap your Hands" and "This is the Record of John" are... oh, the heck with it, I'm going to go listen to them again. If you like music, get this disc.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Scholarship clouds the issue, 1 Sep 2009
By S. Oh - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gibbons: With a Merrie Noyse (Second Service & Consort Anthems) /Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford · Fretwork · Ives (Audio CD)
Gibbons wrote at a time when pitch was a moveable feast. In academic terms this allows for speculation on how low or how high music should 'sit' and this recording makes the case for 'low' settings of music from the London of the 1610s & 1620s. This means aurally that the basses sing in their boots most of the time and the 'ping' one usually associates with boys voices taking the top line is lost... The music presented on this disc is amongst Gibbons' best but, at low pitch, it sounds far less vibrant and less compelling than at our modern pitch of A440. The viol playing from Fretwork is universally excellent and the recorded sound is clean but the 'Merrie Noyse' of Gibbons is missing its merriment. Recommended but with reservations, those due almost exclusively to an academic fussiness which ultimately defeats the intentions of a long-dead composer.

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3.0 out of 5 stars So-so performances matched by implausible use of viols, 30 July 2010
By Maddy Evil - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gibbons: With a Merrie Noyse (Second Service & Consort Anthems) /Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford · Fretwork · Ives (Audio CD)
Highly esteemed by contemporaries as 'one of our best musicians', Orlando Gibbons remains sadly overshadowed by some of his better known compatriots, especially Byrd. The best of his output, however, is richly rewarding, and this recording presents a fine selection of his liturgical music (some of it in editions prepared especially for this release by Dr David Skinner [now working at Cambridge]). In general, Magdalen College Choir sings with accurate intonation and precise ensemble, although for my money, they still lack the maturity, technical assurance and refinement of groups such as the Tallis Scholars and the Sixteen (which use female sopranos in place of the original trebles). For this programme, Magdalen Choir are joined by several renowned soloists, as well as the viol consort Fretwork.

Musicologically speaking, it is laudable that the 'contratenor' solos in the verse anthems are sung by a high tenor (rather than a countertenor), particularly since they are so ably interpreted by Rogers Covey-Crump and Steven Harrold. On the other hand, the presence of a viol consort here is not very convincing. Although viols may have been used in a domestic setting, such performances would have involved a mere handful of singers (probably one-per-part), and certainly NOT a full chapel choir (with a sizeable 13 voices on the top part in Magdalen's case!). On the other hand, some verse anthem texts clearly suggest liturgical rather than domestic performance (like 'This is the record of John' [track 1], written, according to the manuscript incipit, 'for St John Baptists day'), which is highly significant when one considers that evidence supporting the presence of viols in a liturgical context is practically non-existent. Here, the instrumental interludes of such pieces were almost certainly played on an organ, or perhaps occasionally by cornetts and sackbuts (as at the funeral of Prince Henry in 1612, where 'the Gentlemen of the King's [= St. James'] Chapel, with the Children thereof, sung divers excellent Anthems, together with the Organs, and other wind Instruments'). Yet the fact that viols are not just used in the verse anthems on this recording - curiously, they also appear in the Second Service (tracks 4-5 and 9-10) - merely exaggerates the problem, and renders somewhat desperate the attempted justification for their presence in the liner notes (i.e. lack of evidence could suggest that viols were 'commonplace', p.6 - an argument which presumably supports any contemporary instrument taking part, be it opharion, virginals or rackett...!). On a different note entirely, is there any reason why only one verse of each the two hymns (tracks 6 and 8) is sung...?

Overall, in spite of the positive aspects which could be highlighted (notably Skinner's new editions and the varied selection of Gibbon's music), unfortunately, the final result sounds rather like a strange continuation of Deller's/Wenzinger's legacy. In my view, for what it's worth, Gibbons's music has been better served by two other recordings -

1. The Oxford Camerata's release entitled Gibbons: Choral and Organ Music, which has the added advantage of being available at budget price (even if they do sing 'Great King of Gods' to its 19th century text!)
2. Red Byrd's Elizabethan Christmas Anthems, which presents verse anthems by various composers (including Gibbons) within a distinctly 'domestic' style, thereby using viols in a considerably more convincing sound world.
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