Byrd and His ContemporariesChoir of King's College, Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks
Recorded in the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, 4-6 August 1964
William Byrd (c1540-1623)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c1525-1594)
Peter Philips (1560/61-1628)
Giovanni Gabrielli (c1555-1612)
Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1631)
Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Orlando Gibbons (1582-1625)
Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623)
Johannes Eccard (1553-1611)
"There is surely no more quintessentially English sound than that of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Their unaccompanied voices are evocative of immemorial sandstone, of cool cloisters, evensong in church, chapel and cathedral, serene in the music of Shakespeare’s contemporaries Byrd and Gibbons. No less iconic is the chapel that lends its unique acoustic to that sound. One of the glories of the English perpendicular style of architecture, the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge was completed in 1547, a little over a century after the founding, by Henry VI, of King’s College itself. "
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Reviews :
Gramophone Music Magazine September 1966
Tracklist:01. Byrd: Haec dies a 5 (Gradualia II, 1607) [0:02:37.10]
02. Palestrina: Haec dies a 6 (Motets III, 1575) [0:02:03.09]
03. Byrd: Ave verum corpus (Gradualia I, 1605) [0:04:39.60]
04. Philips: Ave verum corpus a 5 (Cantiones sacrae I, 1605) [0:04:26.28]
05. Byrd: Miserere mei, Deus (Cantiones sacrae II, 1591) [0:03:34.66]
06. Gabrieli: Miserere mei, Deus a 6 (Sacrae symphoniae I,1597) [0:03:33.15]
07. Byrd: O quam gloriosum (Cantiones sacrae I, 1589) [0:05:15.07]
08. Victoria: O quAm gloriosum (Motets, 1572) [0:02:58.42]
09. Byrd: Lustorum animae (Gradualia I) [0:02:54.71]
10. Lassus: Lustorum animae (Sacrae cantiones a 5, 1582) [0:03:26.67]
11. Byrd: Tu es Petrus (Gradualia II) [0:02:19.34]
12. Palestrina: Tu es Petrus a 6 (Motets II, 1572) [0:04:00.62]
13. Sweelinck: Hodie Christus natus est (Cantiones sacrae a 5, 1619) [0:03:48.46]
14. Palestrina: Hodie Christus natus est a 8 (Motets III) [0:02:14.65]
15. Victoria: O magnum mysterium (Motets, 1572) [0:04:11.04]
16. Victoria: Senex puerum portabat (Motets, 1572) [0:04:12.23]
17. Byrd: Senex puerum portabat a 4 (Gradualia I) [0:02:58.42]
18. Byrd: Hodie beata virgo Maria (Gradualia I) [0:03:40.30]
19. Gibbons: HOsanna to the son of David [0:03:09.60]
20. Weelkes: Hosanna to the son of David [0:02:10.13]
21. Wellkes: Gloria in excelsis Deo [0:04:08.48]
22. Eccard: When to the temple Mary went [0:03:38.71]
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