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Preces à 7 “Italian” • Iason Marmaras

PRECES “in the Italian Style” (2020) set for Seven Several Voices by Iason Marmaras The Clerkes Extraordinarie • Iason Marmaras These “Italian” Preces, a 7-part setting of the first sung text in the Anglican service of Evensong, were composed underway to Naxos in the summer of 2020. They are written in the style of Elisabethan liturgical music in the 17th century, inspired particularly by the Preces of Thomas Tomkins, but with an invasion of italianate exuberance in the form of word repetitions, imitative entries and expressive ornamentation, such as at the words "make haste to help us", always simply and homophonically set in English services of the time. Accentuated by the lavish instrumentation, the effect is one that would probably would have hardly been tolerated even in the most lavish Anglican Cathedrals in the 17th century, but one that has given us a considerable challenge and great joy time and again at our Athens Evensong. PERFORMERS ❧ THE CLERKES EXTRAORDINARIE Alice Siousti, Zoë Dimopoulou • medius Angeliki Argyri • contratenor Ilias Vlastos • contratenor, adiutor directoris musices Christos Christodoulou • tenor Constantinos Karageorgiou • bassus Anna Noëlle Amstutz • violin Carolina Eguëz, Athanassia Teliou • viols Peter Ferretti • the great double-bass Étienne Asselin • cornett Tin Cugelj, Catherine Motuz, Maximilien Brisson • sackbutts ❧ Iason Marmaras • tenor, harpsichord, director musices TEXT O LORD open thou our lips : and our mouth shall shew forth thy Praise. O God make speed to save us : O LORD make haste to help us. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son : and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen. COMPOSED in the summer of 2020 underway to Naxos RECORDED in the Byzantine Church of the Monastery of Daphni near Athens ESPECIAL THANKS to Phormigx • the Greek National Opera • the Ephorate of Antiquities of West Attica