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Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr - Christopher Gibbons: Motets, Anthems, Fantasias & Voluntaries (2012)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 1 Oct 2024 11:58:39

Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr - Christopher Gibbons: Motets, Anthems, Fantasias & Voluntaries (2012)

Born into an English musical family, organist and composer Christopher Gibbons (1615-1676) probably received early training from his famous father Orlando Gibbons. He sang in the choir of the Chapel Royal and went on to a distinguished career at Westminster Abbey and in the court of Charles II. With this showcase programme of motets, anthems, fantasias for strings, and organ voluntaries (all of which are receiving their first recording), Richard Egarr, the Academy of Ancient Music and the Choir of the AAM, aim to rescue the composer from unjust obscurity.

Given his famous parentage – his father Orlando Gibbons, died when he was ten – it's a bit hard to understand why the music of Christopher Gibbons has remained so obscure. The pieces included on this release by the Academy of Ancient Music are all receiving their recorded premieres, and few other recordings of Gibbons' music exist. It's not that Gibbons was obscure in his own time; he was the first organist appointed at Chapel Royal after the restoration of the British monarchy in 1660. Director Richard Egarr, in his own annotation, said that Gibbons "is the missing musical link between the pre-Commonwealth world of William Lawes and the Restoration baroquerie of Henry Purcell." That makes things sound more cut-and-dried than they are, but it does point to the mixture of styles present in the younger Gibbons' output. In keyboard music, especially, dramatic changes took place between the first and final thirds of the 17th century. Egarr does very well with the small-ensemble organ performance in the Fantasia (track 11), which lives up to its name with really unpredictable harmonic and melodic twists, and the two intriguing Fantasy-Suites. The smaller choral pieces are almost in the mode of Renaissance polyphony; the larger anthems, which benefit from the relatively sizable Academy of Ancient Music Chorus, show the influence of Italian and German polychoral procedures. The sound, recorded not at Westminster Abbey (as the graphics might imply) but at London's All Hallows Church, is impressively clear in a complex group of textures. Recommended to lovers of the English Baroque.

Review by James Manheim, Allmusic.com

This is Christopher Gibbons (1615-1676), eldest surviving son of Orlando, one of the greatest late-Tudor composers, who died suddenly when his son was 10. Christopher sang in the choirs of the Chapel Royal and Westminster Abbey, then became organist at Winchester Cathedral before civil war and its aftermath brought his career as a church musician to a halt for almost 20 years. Unlike most Royalist musicians, he remained in Britain, teaching and composing incidental music for the theatre, including a collaboration with Matthew Locke on the masque Cupid and Death. When the monarchy was restored in 1660, Charles II rewarded Gibbons for his loyalty by appointing him organist of the Chapel Royal, as his father had been 40 years earlier.

Yet Christopher's music is little known now. These pieces have been extracted by Richard Egarr from libraries in Oxford and London, and none has been recorded before. Egarr describes him as the "missing link between the pre-Commonwealth world of Williams Lawes and the Restoration baroquerie of Henry Purcell", and the beautifully played and sung sequence he has devised for the Academy of Ancient Music and its Choir alternates anthems and motets with organ voluntaries (performed by Egarr) and fantasias for two violins, bass viol and organ. The instrumental pieces are wonderfully imaginative, but it's the choral works that stand out with their startling modulations and expressively charged vocal lines. The finest of them starts the disc: the eight-part Not Unto Us, with its building layers of counterpoint, seems to open out into a musical space so vast it's hard to believe the whole anthem lasts fewer than five minutes.

Review by Andrew Clements, The Gurdian

Christopher Gibbons at Allmusic
Christopher Gibbons at Wiki

Richard Egarr at Allmusic
Richard Egarr at Wiki

Tracklist:

01. Not unto us, O Lord (04:58)
02. Voluntarie in C (04:08)
03. Above the Stars my Saviour dwells (06:28)
04. Fantasy-suite in d - [Fantasy] (03:07)
05. Fantasy-suite in d - Allman (01:45)
06. Fantasy-suite in d - Galliard (02:03)
07. Ah, my Soul, why so dismayed (02:38)
08. Organ Voluntary in C (02:21)
09. O bone Jesu (03:25)
10. A Voluntary for ye Duble Organ in a (05:39)
11. Fantasia (04:37)
12. The Lord said unto my Lord (05:02)
13. Verse for the Double Organn in d (04:19)
14. Fantasy-suite in F - Pavan (07:25)
15. Fantasy-suite in F - Allman (01:33)
16. Fantasy-suite in F - Courante (01:39)
17. Fantasy-suite in F - Saraband (01:10)

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