The music is fascinating and extremely stimulating. More akin to much of Britten’s choral music than any Czech composer. A challenge for any first time listener is to resist humming the syncopated ‘crucify’ theme for the rest of the day!
C Hunt – Organ
S Foulkes – Baritone
T Tulacek – Violin
Bath Camerata
Nigel Perrin – Director
“The composer’s voice is strong and individual. This is a real discovery” – The Gramophone
“The powerful imagery of the music remains always fresh after repeated hearings. This disc whets the appetite for more – from composer and performers alike” – Choir & Organ Magazine
On This Recording
- The Sacrifice: I. Oh all ye, who passe by
- The Sacrifice: II. Mine own apostle, who the bag did beare
- The Sacrifice: III. Yet my disciples sleep
- The Sacrifice: IV. I answer nothing
- The Sacrifice: V. Heark now how they crie aloud
- The Sacrifice: VI. And now, I am deliver'd unto death
- The Sacrifice: VII. O all ye, who passe by
- 5 Lenten Motets: No. 1. Tristis est anima mea
- 5 Lenten Motets: No. 2. Pater mi
- 5 Lenten Motets: No. 3. Filiae Jerusalem
- 5 Lenten Motets: No. 4. Eli, Eli
- 5 Lenten Motets: No. 5. Pater meus
- Lauds: If I could tell you
- Lauds
- The 7 Sorrows
