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English Renaissance Music: Tallis / Tye / Sheppard | ECM New Series 4766353

English Renaissance Music: Tallis / Tye / Sheppard

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Label: ECM New Series

Cat No: 4766353

Barcode: 0028947663539

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 12th May 2008

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Contents

Artists

David James (countertenor)
Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
Steven Harrold (tenor)
Gordon Jones (baritone)
Robert MacDonald (bass)
Hilliard Ensemble

Works

Sheppard, John

Beati omnes
Gaudete celicole
Laudate pueri

Tallis, Thomas

Audivi vocem de caelo
In ieiunio et fletu
Omnes gentes, plaudite manibus
Salvator mundi, Domine
Te lucis ante terminum

Tye, Christopher

Eterne rex
In pace in idipsum
Missa Sine Nomine
» Agnus Dei
» Credo
» Gloria
» Sanctus

Artists

David James (countertenor)
Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
Steven Harrold (tenor)
Gordon Jones (baritone)
Robert MacDonald (bass)
Hilliard Ensemble

About

After the enormous success last year of their recording of Bach Motets (476 5776), the Hilliard Ensemble turn their attention to music of the English Renaissance and specifically, works by three 16th century composers: Tallis, Tye and Sheppard.

While Christopher Tye might be branded one of the lesser-known figures of the English Renaissance, and John Sheppard perhaps the more esoteric, Thomas Tallis stands as the most important and accomplished musician of the Tudor period. All three, however, were masters of polyphony, associated with the Chapel Royal.

The music here is not a sampling of the (much-recorded) music for the new Prayer Book but a survey of the earliest examples of the impact of reform on musical composition, namely from the last decades of Henry VIII’s reign. The works of Tallis, Tye and Sheppard are alternated and contrasted throughout this beautifully constructed recital, recorded, like many of the Hilliard Ensemble’s CDs, in the splendid, crystal-clear acoustics of the Sankt Gerold monastery in the Austrian Alps.

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