In Bedlem, That Fayer Cyte SATB and Organ 管风琴

In Bedlem, that fayer cyte是一首 15 世纪的无名颂歌，其中穿插了多首诗歌的拉丁文开头句，令人回味无穷地描述了基督的诞生。从随意的叙述到恐怖（无辜者被屠杀），再到马里亚的温柔形象，最后到庆祝，极端的情感轮廓在第一节旋律的变奏中得到了音乐的贯穿，并交替强调了稀疏和饱满的合唱质地。由独唱者吟唱的诗句构成了第二层的叙事，即在地面诗句上越来越强烈的天堂之光。尤其富有诗意的是，男声温柔地将阳光透过玻璃照射而不碎比喻为圣母玛利亚的无暇受孕"

作曲家: Simon Frisch
出版社: Peermusic Classical
原文简介:
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.