John Amner: Complete Consort Music: - John Amner [CD]

John Amner was born and died in Ely, Cambridgeshire and worked for the greater part of his life at Ely Cathedral, as a boy chorister and later as informator choristorum. He succeeded some of England's finest composers such as George Barcroft, John Farrant and Christopher Tye. He received his bachelor of music from Oxford with the support of the Earl of Bath in 1613 and also from Cambridge in 1640. Although not a 'celebrated' composer of the Renaissance era, the music in Amner's sacred hymnes shows that he was capable of writing in a number of styles from three-voice conzonets through to elaborate consort anthems of multiple voices in the verse sections. Also on this fascinating album is his five part 'Pavan' and 'Galliard' Amner's only surviving works for viol consort which represents an indication of a broader compositional output of instrumental music by the composer. Amner has been seldom recorded, and this meticulously and lovingly curated album represents an important addition to the understanding of both the composer and the provincial religious music scene in England in the first half of the 17th century.

Disc 1
1. Love We in One Consenting (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
2. Let False Surmises Perish (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
3. Away With Weak Complainings (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
4. O Come Thou Spirit Divinest (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
5. O Love Beseeming Well (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
6. Distressed Soul (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
7. Sweet Are the Thoughts (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
8. Come Let's Rejoice (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
9. Saint Mary Now (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
10. At Length to Christ (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
11. But He the God of Love (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
12. Woe Is Me (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
13. Remember Not, Lord, Our Offences (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
14. Thus Sings That Heavenly Quire (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
15. The Heavens Stood All Amazed (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
16. Now Doth the City Remain Solitary (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
17. He That Descended Man to Be (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
18. I Will Sing Unto the Lord (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
19. O Ye Little Flock (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
20. Fear Not (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
21. And They Cry (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
22. Lo, How from Heaven (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
23. I Bring You Tiding (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
24. A Stranger Here (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
25. My Lord Is Hence Removed and Laid (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
26. An Elegy in Memory of Master Thomas Hynson (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
27. Pavan (John Amner) - Fretwork
28. Gaillard (John Amner) - Fretwork
29. Consider, All Ye Passers By (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers
30. I Am for Peace (John Amner) - Dublin Consort Singers