Jesu, dulcis memoria - Victoria, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers

Описание: 'Jesu, dulcis memoria'
From the album ‘The Sacred Flame’

Composer T. L. de Victoria
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers

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Jesu, dulcis memoria
Victoria has long been regarded as the greatest Spanish Renaissance composer, despite being both less prolific and less versatile than many of his contemporaries: virtually his entire output, all of it Latin church music, is contained in only eleven volumes, all published in his lifetime.
'Jesu, dulcis memoria', essentially a polyphonic hymn setting, is found under Victoria’s name in two nineteenth-century collections, Alfieri’s Raccolta di mottetti of 1840 (also the source of Anerio’s Christus factus est), and the Prince of Moscow’s collection of 1843–5 (from which the John of Portugal 'Crux fidelis' comes). There is no earlier extant source, and on stylistic grounds it appears very unlikely that Victoria can have written the piece, exquisite as it is: it belongs rather to Monteverdi’s generation, or later.

LYRICS:
Jesu, dulcis memoria,
Dans vera cordi gaudia:
Sed super mel et omnia,
Ejus dulcis praesentia.
(Office hymn for the Feast of the Holy Name, 12th cent.)

Jesu!— the very thought is sweet!
In that dear name all heart-joys meet;
But sweeter than the honey far
The glimpses of his presence are.

The Sacred Flame
The theme of this album is the marvellous wealth of sacred music which was created in continental Europe out of the ferment of the age of Reformation.

“…The Sacred Flame is a fascinating, impressive compendium of liturgical choral music…” The Independent

John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1983) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.

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