Revoiced

by Corvus Consort, Ferio Saxophone Quartet, Freddie Crowley

Overview

Seeing an album of works by Schuetz, Bach, and Giovanni Gabrieli accompanied by saxophones may inspire some listeners to give this release by the vocal Corvus Consort and the Ferio Saxophone Quartet a miss, but it is well worth hearing and even rehearing. For one thing, the resemblance between the sound of massed winds and that of an organ has been noted prior to this project. For another, Schuetz himself alluded to the possibility of performing some of his works with an organ or with instruments on the individual parts, and yet again, the saxophone is descended from and has a certain sonic resemblance to the wind instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque. All of which is to say that one can actually forget that this is an experiment and simply enjoy the music, which ought to be the goal of many an audacious experiment. Listen to Schuetz's Selig sind die Toten, SWV 391, and it will likely be experienced simply as a convincing Schuetz performance, not as something weird. The appropriateness of the choir-saxophones combination is underscored by the inclusion of four contemporary works for these forces, all premiered here, and one of these, Owain Park's Miserere After Allegri, is a real standout, a kind of deconstruction of the mythical Allegri Miserere that, in turn, reflects further on the sound world imagined by Freddie Crowley, serving as director of both groups. An undoubted novelty that sheds new light on its repertory and is totally enjoyable on its own terms. ~ James Manheim

Product Details

Release Date:	07/01/2022
Label:	Chandos
UPC:	0095115226025
Rank:	159270

Tracks

1. Ich wei¿¿, da¿¿ mein Erlo¿¿ser lebt, SWV 393
2. O salutaris hostia
3. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140~Zion h¿¿rt die W¿¿chter singen
4. Miserere after Allegri for SSATB, saxophone quartet
5. O magnum mysterium, C 3
6. Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil
7. Ich wei¿¿, da¿¿ mein Erl¿¿ser lebt
8. Christus Vincit
9. Das Wort ward Fleisch und wohnet unter uns, SWV 385
10. Warum betr¿¿bst du dich, mein Herz, BWV 138~Weil du mein Gott und Vater bist
11. Selig sind die Toten, SWV 391
12. Ave verum corpus re-imagined
13. Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht, BWV 105~Nun ich wei¿¿, du wirst mir stillen
14. Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh' allzeit, SWV 392
15. Aurora lucis rutilat
16. Mater Dei for SSATB Choir
17. Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147~Jesus bleibet meine Freude

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Corvus Consort   Primary Artist,Vocal Ensemble
Ferio Saxophone Quartet   Primary Artist,Ensemble
Freddie Crowley   Primary Artist,Conductor

Technical Credits

David Hinitt   Engineer
Cass Cassidy   Design,Typesetting
Martin Janus   Text
Owain Park   Composer
Ben Tomlin   Inlay Photography
Sarah Rimkus   Composer
Ferio Saxophone Quartet   Liner Notes
Alessandro Tear   Photography
James MacMillan   Composer,Composer
Alexander James   Mastering
Freddie Crowley   Arranger,Liner Notes,Transcription
Sue Shortridge   A&R
Johann Rist   Text
Bettina Reinke-Welsh   Liner Note Translation
Johann Michael Bach   Composer
Ralph Couzens   Executive Producer
William Butler Yeats   Text
Finn S. Gundersen   Booklet Editor
Will Brown   Editing
Sean Gladwell   Cover Photo
Philipp Nicolai   Text
St. Thomas Aquinas   Text
Andrea Gabrieli   Composer
Giovanni Gabrieli   Composer
Francis Marchal   Liner Note Translation
Orlande de Lassus   Composer
Adrian Peacock   Recording Producer,Editing
Heinrich Schuetz   Composer
Roderick Williams   Composer
Jeremy Summerly   Liner Notes
William Byrd   Original Material
Johann Sebastian Bach   Composer
Erdmann Neumeister   Text