Catalogue
HAVPCD187 – What is our life?
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| Disk Title | What is our life? |
| Renaissance Laments and Elegies | |
| Choir | Cambridge Taverner Choir |
| Conductor | Owen Rees |
| Location | Charterhouse Chapel, Surrey |
| Date Recorded | March 1995 |
| Audio Tracks | 15 |
One of the major concerns of artists of all kinds during the Renaissance was human mortality and transience, and the insignificance of worldly achievement. These themes are encapsulated in Sir Walter Raleigh’s poem What is our life?, and feature in many laments and elegies of the period. They were particularly appropriate when the subject of an elegy was a person of power and rank, whose humbling by Death was thereby all the more telling.
| Trk. | Duration | Track Title | Composer |
| 1 | 05:44 | How are the mighty fallen | Robert Ramsey |
| 2 | 03:43 | When David heard | Thomas Weelkes |
| 3 | 04:27 | Nymphes des bois | Josquin Desprez |
| 4 | 02:32 | Doleo super te | Pierre de la Rue |
| 5 | 03:55 | Absalon fili mi | Desprez?/de la Rue? |
| 6 | 07:19 | Lugebat David Absalon | Nicolas Gombert |
| 7 | 04:16 | Versa est in luctum | Alonso Lobo |
| 8 | 04:42 | Mortuus est Philippus rex | Ambrosio Cotes |
| 9 | 03:42 | Versa est in luctum | Tomás Luis de Victoria |
| 10 | 04:13 | When David heard | Thomas Tomkins |
| 11 | 02:08 | O Jonathan | Thomas Weelkes |
| 12 | 05:16 | Sleep, fleshly birth | Robert Ramsey |
| 13 | 04:37 | Come to me, grief, for ever | William Byrd |
| 14 | 04:02 | What is our life? | Orlando Gibbons |
| 15 | 02:22 | When David heard | Robert Ramsey |
Owen Rees, as a musicologist and choral director, is involved mainly with English, Spanish, and Portuguese sacred repertories of the Renaissance and early Baroque. He took his first degree and doctorate at Cambridge University, and was College Lecturer in music at St Peter’s College and St Edmund Hall in Oxford before joining the Department of Music at the University of Surrey in 1991. [He is now Director of Music at The Queen's College, Oxford.]
