Sing joyfully - William Byrd, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
'Sing joyfully'
From the album ‘Ave verum corpus' - Motets and anthems of William Byrd
Composer William Byrd
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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LYRICS:
Sing joyfully unto God our strength. Sing loud unto the God of Jacob. Take the song and bring
forth the timbrel, the pleasant harp and the viol. Blow the trumpet in the new moon, even in
the time appointed, and at our feast day. For this is a statute for Israel, and a law of the God
of Jacob.
(Psalm 81, vv. 1–4)
Sing Joyfully
This concise and delightfully festive anthem was never published by Byrd himself, but it gained very widespread popularity in his lifetime, appearing in about a hundred early seventeenth-century manuscript and printed sources. Word-painting, notably at 'blow the trumpet in the new moon' helps bring the familiar psalm text vividly to life.
Ave verum corpus - Motets and anthems of William Byrd
This recording presents a selection of 15 of the 150 or so Latin motets and three of the dozens of English anthems that, between them, form the larger part of the life’s work of William Byrd (1543–1623), the greatest English composer of his era. The chosen motets and anthems represent just some of the many facets of Byrd’s sacred music, now recognized after three centuries of neglect as among the most glorious ever written for choir.
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 1981) 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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