Label: SIGNUM U.K. 180
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NAKED BYRD
WILLIAM BYRD (ca. 1540 – 1623): Ave Verum
MORTEN LAURIDSEN (*1943): O Magnum Mysterium
THOMAS TALLIS (1505 – 1585): Loqubantur variis linguis
GREGORIO ALLEGRI (1582 – 1652): Miserere Mei
JOHN SHEPPARD (1515 – 1558): Libera nos, Salva nos
HENRYCK GORECKI (*1933): Totus Tuus
ROBERT PEARSALL (1795 – 1856): Lay a Garland
JOHN TAVERNER (*1944): Song For Athene
ANTON BRUCKNER (1824 – 1896): Ave Maria
JONATHAN ROBERTS (*1983): Hope Finds A Way

Armonico Consort

Christopher Monks, artistic director
The varied program of this recording identifies, as Armonico Consort’s director, Christopher Monks describes, ‘... a wide range of pieces united by the tendency of their composers to wear their hearts on their sleeves and their ability to fix a sense of raw emotion on paper’. For the majority of the composers represented here, the reasons for revealing naked sentiments through their music is as a response to a religious theme, whether through the suppression of particular religious practices or the influence of religious ideals themselves. Crossing several centuries, from the sixteenth to the present day this disc displays how every generation has been inspired to use both sacred and secular music as a powerful medium to express their personal emotions.

Label: SIGNUM UK 222
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The van den Heuvel Organ of the Danish Radio

Naji Hakim, organ

Naji Hakim returns to Signum with this collection of his own works for organ. As both an organist and a composer, Lebanese-born Naji Hakim has distinguished himself as one of the most active artists of his generation. A virtuosic performer, who succeeded Olivier Messiaen as organist at l'église de la Trinité in Paris, many of his works draw on his own Christian beliefs (in 2007 he was honoured with a Papal award for his services to the church). The works are recorded on the new van den Heuvel organ of the Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen (opened in 2009). Praise for Mr. Hakim’s last disc on Signum UK – (The Organ of Glenalmond College – SIGCD 130)

“For all that one is used to Hakim’s coruscating brilliance, the sheer technical skill and white-hot intensity of the Hakim imagination in blending these dirge-like themes into music left this Scotsman duly open mouthed.” - Grame Kay, Choir & Organ Magazine, December 2008