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Download Booklet ALSO ON SIGNUMCLASSICS Hymns, Psalms & Dialogues of Sorrow Lamentations: Sacred Music by Robert White Gallicantus directed by Gabriel Crouch SIGCD134 Passions on the Death of Prince Henry (1612) “What an outstanding disc ... never once is there a loss of clarity, a hint of muddiness.” The Gramophone “... sublime sacred sounds from the late 16th century ... beautifully recorded.” The Observer “Taste the final amens in Exaudiat te, Dominus, where imitative exchanges spiral in ecstasy. Elizabeth Kenny Impassioned, exciting music.” lute The Times Gabriel Crouch Available through record stores and at www.signumrecords.com For more information call +44 (0) 20 8997 4000 director DIALOGUES OF SORROW Passions on the death of Prince Henry, 1612 From SONGS OF MOURNING John Coprario 1 When David Heard Robert Ramsey [2.29] bq So Parted You (to the most princely and virtuous Elizabeth) [4.25] 2 What Tears, dear Prince? Robert Ramsey [3.35] br When Pale Famine (to the most disconsolate Great Britain) [2.54] PASSIONS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY bs Then David Mourned Thomas Tomkins [2.56] 3 ‘Tis Now Dead Night Thomas Ford [4.03] bt When David Heard Thomas Tomkins [3.51] 4 Weep, weep Britons William Cranford [4.18] bu Weep Forth your Tears John Ward [4.37] 5 No Object Dearer John Ward [5.02] Total timings [70.46] From SONGS OF MOURNING John Coprario 6 O Grief (to the most sacred King James) [3.22] 7 O Poor distracted World (to the World) [2.47] GALLICANTUS 8 O Jonathan, Woe is me Thomas Weelkes [2.15] AMY MOORE & CLARE WILKINSON SOPRANO COUNTERTENOR 9 When David Heard Thomas Weelkes [3.55] MARK CHAMBERS & DAVID ALLSOPP CHRISTOPHER WATSON & MATTHEW LONG TENOR bl And the King was Moved Richard Dering [2.16] GABRIEL CROUCH & WILLIAM GAUNT BASS bm Contristatus est David Richard Dering [2.24] with bn Melpomene, Bewail Thomas Vautor [4.22] ELIZABETH KENNY LUTE bo How are the Mighty Fall’n Robert Ramsey [5.34] GABRIEL CROUCH DIRECTOR bp Sleep Fleshly Birth Robert Ramsey [5.40] www.signumrecords.com This treaty secured an allegiance between England and were used as inspiration for part of Shakespeare’s suspicion of plotting against the king, and one of HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES Scotland and resolved the vexing question of the Virgin A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Even as an adolescent he Henry’s most often–quoted phrases was uttered with Queen’s succession. Elizabeth’s death had brought to developed a reputation for chivalry, athletic prowess reference to Raleigh: “Only a man such as my father At the beginning of November 1612, the 18-year-old an end a period of unprecedented cultural prosperity and fierce self-discipline, and it was these qualities would keep such a bird in a cage.” Prince Henry, eldest son of King James I, took a dip in for the English, with the first wave of composers who which fired the imaginations of the artistic and literary the heavily-polluted River Thames. Flu-like symptoms collectively established the ‘Golden Age’ now dead figures of the day. The artist Robert Peake produced Those lauded qualities of chivalry and discipline also followed, which rapidly developed into a debilitating (Tallis, White, Sheppard, Mundy etc) or retired (William portraits which depicted Henry excelling at the hunt permeated Henry’s court, established at St James’s fever, now believed to be typhoid. Sir Walter Raleigh Byrd was now living in seclusion on his Essex estate), with quarry at his feet, and Ben Jonson set his masque Palace in 1609, and quickly propelled its reputation sent medicine from the Tower of London which the and the next wave, led by Thomas Tomkins and Thomas Oberon in a wild landscape populated by satyrs with well above his father’s rather chaotic royal household dying prince refused, and he passed away on the 6th Weelkes, only just reaching maturity. James failed to huge sexual appetites who awaited the rigor and order at Whitehall: Swearing and rowdy behaviour were November, attended by his brother Charles and sister establish his predecessor’s rapport with the general which the young prince (as Oberon) promised to impose punished with fines; military men were promoted to Elizabeth. Some thirty years before England was riven population, isolated by his firm belief in the ‘divine upon his accession. the most trusted positions; and since he was a strict by civil war, the nation had lost a young man who right of kings’ and his assumed air of intellectual practitioner of the Protestant faith, no Catholics were might just have had the strength and wit to prevent it. superiority, and he was to some extent held responsible Henry’s virtuous and heroic image contrasted dreadfully allowed. This last point played particularly well in the Certainly the flood of written memorials – epistolary, for the fact that things were not quite as they had with that of the young Prince Charles, the second son court of public opinion, and at a time of continuing poetic and musical – which followed his unexpected been. Contemporary poets and playwrights, who often of King James, and the next in line after Henry. Even insecurity on the continent, as wars continued to flare death and which far outnumbered those penned for used codified characters from history or mythology as a teenager he was considered to be vacillating and up over territorial disputes and religious schisms, it Queen Elizabeth nine years previously, and the vast to represent their rulers, represented James as one of feeble, not helped by an early bout of rickets which left was a comfort to know that the next king would be crowd of mourners which attended the prince’s body the biblical kings David or Solomon to imply wisdom him weak-boned and slow to develop, and his affinity demonstrably willing to fight and die for his God (as on its final journey to Westminster Abbey, attest to the and austerity – though a less polite reading of the for classical and religious study bore the aloofness and distinctly opposed to his father, who showed no desire hope which the people had invested in this young man. analogy could suggest that the king was a bit of a bore detachment of his father. Henry recognized the need to ‘muck in’ with his subjects under any circumstances, This was a conspicuous abandonment of British reserve, – and the representation of James as King David creates to distance himself from anything associated with his least of all military ones). The simmering disquiet and it fuelled the composition of emotionally-charged fascinating sub-plots which may tell us something father, and took every step possible to appear ‘in touch’ between England and Spain had not been resolved, and and text-driven vocal music inspired by the new sounds about the way James was really perceived, and in with the people, as Elizabeth had been. His public there was a sense of frustration that the great Catholic emerging from the Italian courts of Mantua and Venice, particular how his subjects viewed his relationship with appearances took place independently from the king’s, enemy was still amassing weapons and colonial territory combined with the fashionable melancholy of the late his son Henry. and his strategic alliances with prominent Protestant in spite of the sacrifices which England had made to Elizabethan era. nobility (including some who were out of favour with defeat it during the previous century. On the other hand, James of course had two sons: Henry and Charles. the king) and foreign royalty such as Henry VI of France all this loathing of Catholicism did not deter Henry from After the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, James VI of Henry was the eldest, born on the 19th February 1594 revealed a distinctly mature political mind. The former imitating the best of Catholic southern Europe when it Scotland acceded to the throne of England, in at Stirling Castle in Scotland. He was christened at favourite of Queen Elizabeth, Sir Walter Raleigh, was came to music, art and architecture at his court. Early on accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Berwick. midsummer and it is said that his baptismal celebrations one such ally despite his prolonged imprisonment on he imported a handful of householders from Florence - 4 - - 5 - to help bring a little of the Medici magic to London, of the six parts are missing from the only surviving Britain”, and the final song is simply addressed “To Into the second category (in which room for doubt and indeed his patronage of figures of international source, the work is now unperformable and does not the World.” exists) can be placed the 13 sacred madrigals which use renown such as the composer Alfonso Ferrabosco and feature on this recording, but the surviving parts the analogy of David weeping over the death of his son the architect Inigo Jones suggested that King Henry the are reminiscent in structure of the multi-movement Also in this category fall the madrigals by Thomas Absalom (When David Heard that Absalom was Slain, Ninth would wipe out the memory of James’s austerity madrigals of Lassus from the previous century. Ramsey Ford, William Cranford and John Ward which together with text drawn from the second book of Samuel), and institute a cultural legacy to rival Italy’s. was serving as Director of Music at Trinity College, complete a trilogy under the heading Passions on and several more describing David’s lament over Saul Cambridge University at the time, and is the composer the Death of Prince Henry. These are preserved and Jonathan (O Jonathan, Woe is Me, Then David But Henry’s premature death robbed England of with the most works which could be dedicated to the alongside each other in a manuscript belonging to Mourned etc).
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