Organ Music
CD
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- Composer
- Gibbons, Orlando
- Performers
- Summerly, Jeremy, Cummings, Laurence, Oxford Camerata
- Label
- Naxos
- Barcode
- 9786310169361
Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625) Choral and Organ Music Orlando Gibbons was the most highly-regarded English musician of his generation. As the Dean of Westminster commented in 1624: \The organ was touched by the best finger of that age, Mr. Orlando Gibbons. Gibbons became organist of the Chapel Royal and, later, Westminster Abbey. His output was not great: church music, a set of madrigals, keyboard and consort music, and a few other works. The church music includes thirty-two anthems (including ten verse anthems where sections for solo voices with independent accompanist alternate with choral passages) and just two services. Of the full anthems, O clap your hands - a setting of Psalm 47 - is a noble work demonstrating contrapuntal mastery in its eight-part writing with striking antiphonal effects. Hosanna to the son of David is a festive setting for Palm Sunday; with its light-textured opening (which is recapitulated) it compares closely with Byrd's Exalt thyself, O God. The impressively austere Out of the deep is a setting of Psalm 130 which one is reluctant wholeheartedly to ascribe to Gibbons on stylistic and other grounds. In Lift up your heads the composer responds vividly to words from Psalm 24. Almighty and everlasting God is an exquisitely fashioned miniature which takes its text from the Collect for the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany while O Lord, in thy wrath captures the penitential mood of Psalm 6 with extended phrases and impressive contrasts of texture. Turning to the
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