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William Byrd Infelix ego
Mass for 5 Voices - Motets – Collegium Vocale Gent – Philippe Herreweghe
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total time: 49’49
also available Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent present their third project for Phi focussing on vocal music of the Renaissance. This time, it is the English composer William Byrd (c.1540-1623) who is being honoured. The title of the programme is that of Byrd’s motet Infelix ego, one of the greatest artistic statements of the 16th century. Its text is a meditation on Psalm 50, written by the Dominican Girolamo Savonarola, a remarkable man who waged a campaign against the corrupt Medici family in Florence. Taking the form of several rhetorical questions and assertions, the text describes all the emotions felt by a tormented soul: guilt, fear, embarrassment, anger but above all the gift of deliverance upon acceptance of Christ’s mercy. Byrd seems to have felt a powerful emotional connection with the words.
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The Collegium Vocale Gent also presents the Mass for 5 Voices and a selection of motets by Byrd, along with Alfonso Ferrabosco’s Peccantem me quotidie a5 and Philippus de Monte’s Miserere mei a5.
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r e l e a s e n o v e m b e r 2014
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William Byrd
Infelix ego
Mass for 5 Voices - Motets
Tracklist 1. 2. 3. 4.
Emendemus in melius Infelix ego Ave Maria Peccantem me quotidie (Alfonso Ferrabosco)
Mass for 5 voices 5. Kyrie 6. Gloria 7. Credo 8. Sanctus 9. Benedictus 10. Agnus Dei 11. 12.
Christe qui lux es Miserere mei (Philippus de Monte)
Out her e S.A. · Rue du Chêne 27 · B-1000 Br ussels (Belgium) tel.: +32 2 373 82 00 · fax: +32 2 373 82 09 Sales & mar keting: dominic@out her e-music.com · Communication: julien@out her e-music.com www.out her e-music.com