Renaissance - 5 CD

RENAISSANCEMASTERPIECES
Tallis • Gibbons • Taverner • Byrd
Choral works of Tallis, Byrd, Tomkins, Taverner, Gibbons, Lassus, Du Cuarroy, Palestrina, De Monte
The Choir of New College Oxford, Edward Higginbottom
This set reveals the riches of Renaissance choral polyphony, the art of combining, contrasting and colouring vocal lines into a sound-web of unsurpassable beauty and splendour.Presented are the great masters from England, France, Germany and Italy, in their best and most prestigious works.Superb performances of one of the best choirs of England: the Choir of New College Oxford.Licensed from Collins Classics, hardly been distributed at the time of issue (1996).All sung texts are included, with lucid liner notes on the music and composer.
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CD11 THOMAS TALLIS (1505-1585): Magnificat & Nunc dimittis
2 ORLANDO GIBBONS (1583-1625): Te Deum
3 THOMAS TOMKINS (1572-1656): Te Deum
JOHN TAVERNER (1490-1545): Western Wind Mass
4 Gloria
5 Credo
6 Sanctus-Benedictus
7 Agnus Dei
7’188 WILLIAM BYRD (1543-1623):
Laudibus in sanctis Dominum (from: Cantiones Sacrae 1591)
5’479. WILLIAM BYRD: Miserere mei (from: Cantiones Sacrae 1591)
3’43Total time: 73’52 CD2ORLANDE DE LASSUS (1532-1594)
1 Aurora lucis rutilat- Motet a 10 4’162 Tristis est anima mea- Motet a 5 4’253 Missa “Tous les regretz”: Kyrie, a 6 3’52 4 Missa “Tous les regretz”: Gloria, a 6 5’535 Ave verum corpus- Motet a 6 3’456. Surgens Jesus- Motet a 5 3’227 Missa “Tous les regretz”: Credo, a 6 9’248 Timor et tremor- Motet a 6 5’549 Domine convertere- Motet a 4 3’1810 Missa “Tous les regretz”: Sanctus, a 6 2’5211 Missa “Tous les regretz”: Benedictus, a 6 2’3112 Missa “Tous les regretz”: Agnus Dei, a 6 2’1513 Salve Regina- Motet a 6 4’4714 Veni Creator 8’18 Total time: 64’57
CD3EUSTACHE DU CAURROY (1549-1609)
1 Veni sancte Spiritus
6’352 Requiem
4’393 Kyrie
2’124 Si ambulem
4’085 Domine Jesu
6’386 Sanctus
4’147 Agnus Dei
2’498 Lux aeterna
2’319 Benedicamus Domino
2’3610 Ave Maria
2’4611 Ave Virgo gloriosa
5’4812 Salve Regina
4’4113 Christe, qui lux es
4’0414 Ne gravis
3’2115 Memento nostri
5’0916 Victimae Paschali
4’31Total time: 66’47 CD4GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA (1525-1594)
1 Victimae Paschali, a 8 4’022 Magnificat, a 8 5’293 Nunc dimittis, a 8 3’544 Dum complerentur, a 6 6’025 Ad Dominum cum tribular, a 4 5’016 Stabat Mater, a 8 9’197 Alma redemptoris, a 4 2’448 Recordare, a 3- a 8 9’419 Ad te levavi oculos meos, a 4 6’3110 Veni sancte spiritus, a 8 3’41Total time: 56’25
CD5PHILIPPUS DE MONTE (1521-1603)
1 Miserere mei, a 5
3’572 Peccavi super numerum, a 6
6’503 Missa “Si ambulavero”: Kyrie, a 6
2’534 Missa “Si ambulavero”: Gloria, a 6
5’435 Super flumina Babylonis, a 8
5’576 Domine, quid multiplicati sunt, a 5
5’507 Missa “Si ambulavero”: Credo, a 6
8’288 Spes humani generis, a 6
3’269 Domine Jesu Christe, a 6
4’1710 Angelus Domini descendit de caelo, a 6
5’3311 Missa “Si ambulavero”: Sanctus, a 6
1’5512 Missa “Si ambulavero”: Benedictus, a 6
1’4913 Missa “Si ambulavero”: Agnus Dei, a 6
2’1814 Hodie, dilectissimi, omnium sanctorum a 8
6’07Total time: 65’10
The Choir of New College Oxford, Edward Higginbottom
Producer: Tony Harrison
Engineer: Mike Clements
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