MAGNIFICATE by Giovanni ANIMUCCIA, rendition by Jacques Barbier for four mixed a cappella voices. This short Magnificat, ideally for four mixed voices, proposes during its six polyphonic verses very different climates by the mere fact of a constant renewal of the writing: imitative cells (v.1), syllabic writing (v.3), writing in false drone (v.5), verse 7 in three voices contrasting with verse 9, denser and its cantus firmus in the second voice before the cheerful ternary of verse 11. |