"Refuge from the Flames". Allegri, Miserere and the Savonarola Legacy
ORA Singers, Suzi Digby
1h17
1 CD
HMW906103
Apple Music
We begin and end this second ORA album with two contrasting settings of the Miserere mei (Psalm 50, Vulgate). Over the centuries this text has inspired reflections by many Christian writers, none more influential than those by Girolamo Savonarola, and we have devoted much of this album to his extraordinary legacy. Central to the recording is Savonarola’s meditation on the psalm, Infelix Ego, writtenshortly before his execution. We present it here in William Byrd’s justly famous setting, and in a newly commissioned masterpiece by the Latvian composer Eriks Ešenvalds. Suzi Digby OBE
GREGORIO ALLEGRI
· Miserere (Ben Byram Wigfield edit.) (12'06)
GIOVANNI ANNIMUCCIA
· Iesu, sommo conforto (1'10)
· Alma, che si gentile (1'55)
· Che fai qui, core? (1'17)
LUCA BETTINI
· Ecce quam bonum (2'33)
PHILIPPE VERDELOT
· Letamini in Domino (2'06)
WILLIAM BYRD [1543-1623]
· Infelix ego (12'14)
ERIKS ESENVALDS
· Infelix ego (After William Byrd) (11'31)
JEAN RICHAFORT [1480-1547]
· O quam dulcis (4'24)
CLAUDE LE JEUNE [1528-1600]
· Tristitia obsedit me, mango (5'00)
ANONYMOUS
· Ecce quomodo moritur (1'47)
JACOB CLEMENS NON PAPA
· Tristitia obsedit me, amici (8'44)
JAMES MACMILLAN [1959-]
· Miserere (13'06)
