Various Artists — See, See, The Word is Incarnate: Choral & Instrumental Music by Gibbons, Tomkins & Weelkes (2021)

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Classical, Instrumental

In succession to the Tudors, the flourishing court culture of the Stuart royal dynasty fostered one of the greatest periods in the history of British music. Director and organist Andrew Arthur unites his forces in this compelling programme of works by three composers who flourished in the Jacobean period — Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes and Thomas Tomkins — around the theme of the Word of God. The choral items on this recording exemplify a rhetorically-aware sense of what it means to sound the Word enriched with music in order to teach, move and delight.

1. This is the Record of John

2. Voluntary in C

3. \’Short\’ Evening Service- I. Magnificat

4. In Nomine a5, Vdgs 1

5. \’Short\’ Evening Service- II. Nunc dimittis

6. A Substantial Verse

7. My Shepherd is the Living Lord

8. Fantasia VII a3, Vdgs 9

9. Verse in a

10. O Lord, in Thy Wrath Rebuke Me Not

11. Voluntary I

12. Evening Verse Service \’for Trebles\’- I. Magnificat

13. Voluntary in D

14. Evening Verse Service \’for Trebles\’- II. Nunc dimittis

15. Fantasia a4 \’for the great dooble bass\’, Vdgs 1

16. Voluntary in a

17. See, see, the Word is incarnate