Renewals and Reincarnations

Renewals and Reincarnations
Cappella Nova Mundi - William Kempster
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Contents:

  1. La Rue: Ave Regina caelorum
  2. La Rue: Si dormiero
  3. ? La Rue: Adieu comment
  4. Willaert: In tua patientia
  5. La Rue: Pour ce que je suis (rondeau)
  6. La Rue: Dedans boutez
  7. La Rue: Cum caelum mutatur
  8. ? La Rue: Quant il survient
  9. ? La Rue: Saillies avant (Tant esjoïst mon cuer)
  10. La Rue: Quis dabit pacem
  11. Beethoven / Kempster: Gott spricht zu jedem nur, eh er ihn macht

Performers: Elizabeth Bowman, Sam Bradley, Mike Bunting, Ryan Burke, Albert Craig, Will Farrell, Ruth George, Lianne Goodwin, Meg Grazian, Heather Guilfoyle, Andrew Hankinson, Sarah Hunter, Zoe Jost, Kayla Kenney, Matt Livernois, Stephanie Mailhot, Cathy Meyer, Paul Merrill, Benjamin O'Brien, Hannah O'Brien, Jesse Parent, Andrew Scoglio, Jayne Segedy, Stephanie Slabon, Erin Smith, Thomas Smoker, Andrew Sokol, Audrey Thompson, Rob Tobin

Playing time: 60'

Recording dates: September 2019, October 2021, August 2023 (Dover, NH); released: 2023

All tracks are sung. Track #7 is a 19th century contrafact of #2, while tracks #2 (already), #3, #9 & #10 survive without texts, and are therefore sung to texts from the period as chosen by Kempster. Text for track #6 was discovered by Kempster, with title corrected. Also, track #5 was supplied with additional text so as to be sung as a rondeau. (The concluding Beethoven track is a text of Rilke set to the slow movemment of his Op.132 quartet by Kempster.)

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Todd M. McComb