In Bedlem, That Fayer Cyte SATB and Organ 管風琴

In Bedlem, that fayer cyte是一首 15 世紀的無名頌歌，其中穿插了多首詩歌的拉丁文開頭句，令人回味無窮地描述了基督的誕生。從隨意的敘述到恐怖（無辜者被屠殺），再到馬利亞的溫柔形象，最後到慶祝，極端的情感輪廓在第一節旋律的變奏中得到了音樂的貫穿，並交替強調了稀疏和飽滿的合唱質地。由獨唱者吟唱的詩句構成了第二層的敘事，即在地面詩句上越來越強烈的天堂之光。尤其富有詩意的是，男聲溫柔地將陽光透過玻璃照射而不碎比喻為聖母瑪利亞的無暇受孕"

作曲家: Simon Frisch
出版社: Peermusic Classical
原文簡介:
In Bedlem, that fayer cyte is an anonymous 15th century carol that intersperses the Latin opening lines of various psalms into an evocative account of Christ's birth. The extreme emotional contours – from casual narrative, to terror (the slaughter of the innocents), to a gentle image of Mary, to celebration – are given a musical through line in variants on the first verse's melody, with alternating emphasis on sparse and full choral textures. The psalm lines, intoned by a soloist, form a second-level narrative of an increasingly intense heavenly light over the terrestrial verses. Particularly poetic is the analogy of the sun shining through glass without shattering to the immaculate conception of Mary, sung tenderly by the men.