One of an extensive series of box sets presenting the greatest, most famous and best-loved choral masterworks of western music, encompassing more than 700 years of musical history, from the Flemish masters Josquin and Ockeghem, through the mastery of Bach, the grace of Mozart, the romantics Brahms and Mendelssohn to 20th century masters Britten and Rutter.

Beautifully repackaged with fresh and inspirational artwork, this is a highly attractive series.

Contents:
CD 1: Music for Henry VIII
1. Ave Dei patris filia
2. Ave rosa sine spinis
3. Alleluia: Ora pro nobis
4. Euge coeli porta
5. Kyrie: Deus creator

- Mass: Salve Intemerata
6. Gloria
7. Credo
8. Sanctus & Benedictus
9. Agnus Dei

10. Salve intemerata

Chapelle du Roi / Alistair Dixon
Total time: 71’51

CD 2: Music at the Reformation
1. Magnificat
2. Nunc dimittis
3. Sancte Deus
4. Conditor Kyrie

- Mass for four voices
5. Gloria
6. Credo
7. Sanctus
8. Benedictus
9. Agnus Dei
10. Remember not, O Lord God
11. Hear the voice and prayer
12. If ye love me
13. A new commandment
14. Benedictus
15. Te Deum for meanes

Chapelle du Roi / Alistair Dixon
Total time: 70’32

CD 3: Music for Queen Mary
1. Beati immaculati
2. Introit: Puer natus est nobis
3. Kyrie: Deus Creator

- Mass: Puer natus est nobis
4. Gloria
5. Gradual: Viderunt omnes
6. Alleluia: Dies sanctificus
7. Sequence: Celeste organum
8. Sanctus
9. Benedictus
10. Agnus Dei

11. Communion: Viderunt omnes
12. Suscipe quaeso
13. Gaude gloriosa

Total time: 64’45

CD 4: Music for the Divine Office 1
1. Hodie nobis caelorum
2. Salvator mundi
3. Quod chorus vatum
4. Videte miraculum
5. In pace in idipsum
6. Dum transisset sabbatum
7. Jesu salvator saeculi
8. Sermone blando
9. Jam Christus astra ascenderat
10. Loquebantur variis linguis
11. Magnificat

Chapelle du Roi / Alistair Dixon
Total time: 66’41

CD 5: Music for the Divine Office 2
1. Audivi vocem de coelo
2. Candidi facti sunt
3. Honor virtus et potestas
4. Homo quidam fecit coenam
5. Te lucis ante terminum (ferial)
6. Te lucis ante terminum (festal)
7. Natus est nobis hodie
8. Veni redemptor genitum
9. Jam lucis orto sidere
10. Ecce tempus idoneum
11. Ex more docti mistico
12. Clarifica me pater
13. Clarifica me pater (II)
14. Clarifica me pater (III)
15. Gloria tibi trinitas
16. 1ste confessor
17. Alleluia: per te Dei genitrix
18. Felix namque (II)

Andrew Benson-Wilson (organ)
Chapelle du Roi / Alistair Dixon
Total time: 77’53

CD 6: Music for a Reformed Church
1. Christ rising again from the dead
2. Preces (1st set)
3. Venite
4. Te Deum
5. Benedictus
6. Responses and collects for Easter Matins
7. Commandments
8. Credo
9. Offertory sentence
10. Sanctus
11. Gloria
12. Preces (2nd set)
13. Wherewithal shall a young man
14. O do well unto thy servant
15. My soul cleaveth to the dust
16. Magnificat
17. Nunc dimittis
18. Responses and collects for Christmas Eve evensong
19. O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit
20. Purge me, O Lord
21. Verily, verily I say unto you
22. Remember not, O Lord God
23. O Lord, in thee is all my trust
24. Out from the deep

Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter
25. Man blest no doubt
26. Let God arise in majesty
27. Why fum’th in fight
28. O come in one to praise the Lord
29. E’en like the hunted hind
30. Expend, O Lord, my plaint
31. Why brag’st in malice high
32. God grant with grace
33. Ordinal

Chapelle du Roi / Alistair Dixon
Total time: 76’20

CD 7: Music for Queen Elizabeth
1. Salvator mundi I
2. O sacrum convivium
3. In manus tuas
4. O nata lux de lumine
5. Absterge Domine
6. Discomfort them O Lord
7. Domine, quis habitabit
8. Laudate Dominum
9. Miserere nostri
10. Salvator mundi II
11. Mihi autem nimis
12. O salutaris hostia
13. In ieiunio et fletu (Low)
14. In ieiunio et fletu (High)
15. Derelinquat impius
16. Spem in alium

Chapelle du Roi / Alistair Dixon
Total time: 61’09

CD 8: The Lamentations and Contrafacta
1. Lamentations of Jeremiah I
2. Lamentations of Jeremiah II
3. Wipe away my Sins
4. Forgive me, Lord, my sin
5. Blessed are those that be undefiled
6. Arise, O Lord, and hear
7. With all our hearts
8. I call and cry to thee
9. O sacred and holy banquet
10. When Jesus went into Simon the Pharisee’s house
11. Blessed be thy name
12. O Praise the Lord II
13. Sing and glorify heaven’s high majesty

Chapelle du Roi / Alistair Dixon
Total time: 63’22

CD 9: Instrumental Music and Songs 1
1. In nomine I
Charivari Agrèable (lute)
2. In nomine II
Charivari Agrèable (lute)
3. A Solfing Song
Charivari Agrèable (lute)
4. Salvator Mundi (trio)
Charivari Agrèable (lute)
5. Fantasia
Charivari Agrèable (lute)
6. Felix namque II
Lynda Sayce (lute)
7. Felix namque I
Laurence Cummings (virginals)
8. When shall my sorrowful sighing slack
Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
9. Like as the doleful dove
Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
10. O ye tender babes
Laurence Cummings (virginals)
11. Purge me, O Lord
Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
12. Per haec nos
Laurence Cummings (virginals)
13. A Point
Laurence Cummings (virginals)
14. Lesson: two partes in one
Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
15. Remember not, O Lord God
Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
16. Per haec nos
Andrew Benson-Wilson (organ)
17. A Point
Andrew Benson-Wilson (organ)
18. Lesson: two partes in one
Andrew Benson-Wilson (organ)
19. Tu nimirum
Lynda Sayce (lute), Stephen Taylor (countertenor)
20. When shall my sorrowful sighing slack
Lynda Sayce (lute), Stephen Taylor (countertenor)
21. Like as the doleful dove
Lynda Sayce (lute), Stephen Taylor (countertenor)
22. O ye tender babes
Lynda Sayce (lute), Stephen Taylor (countertenor)
23. Ye sacred muses (Byrd)
Charivari Agrèable (lute), Stephen Taylor (countertenor)

Total time: 75’15

CD 10: Instrumental Music and Songs 2
1. Litany
2. Verset I
3. Verset II
4. Felix namque I
Andrew Benson-Wilson (organ)
Chapelle du Roi / Alistair Dixon
Total time: 26’44

10 CDs + CD ROM