Early English Polyphony

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Release Date: 5th Nov 2021
Catalogue No: 9029654503
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

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Hacomplaynt: Salve Regina A 5

Work length10:58

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

I. Salve Regina mater misericordiae

Track length3:48

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II. Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui

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III. O clemens, o pia, o dulcis

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Fayrfax: Magnificat "Regale"

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

I. Anima mea dominum

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II. Et misericordia eius a progenie in progenies

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III. Deposuit potentes desede

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IV. Suscepit Israel puerum suum

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V. Gloria Patri et Filio, et spiritui Sancto

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Taverner: Dum transisset Sabbatum I

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Philip Ledger

Tye: Mass "Euge bone" a 6

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Philip Ledger

Gloria

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Credo

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Sanctus

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Benedictus

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Agnus Dei

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Morley: Nolo mortem peccatoris

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Philip Ledger

Tallis: Spem in alium

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Peter Stevens (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah, First Lesson

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Philip Ledger

Incipit. "Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae"

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Aleph. "Quomodo sedet sola civitas"

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Beth. "Plorans ploravit in nocte"

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Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah, Second Lesson

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Philip Ledger

Incipit. "De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae"

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Ghimel. "Migravit Juda propter afflictionem"

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Daleth. "Omens persecutores eius apprehenderunt"

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Heth. "Facti sunt hostes"

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Tallis: Mass "Puer natus est nobis" a 7

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Philip Ledger

Gloria

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Sanctus

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Benedictus

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Agnus Dei

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Tallis: Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Philip Ledger

No. 8, O nata lux

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No. 1, Salvator mundi I

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Tallis: If ye love me

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Philip Ledger

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When King’s College, Cambridge was founded by King Henry VI in 1441, careful provision was made for a choral foundation of sixteen men and sixteen choristers to sing daily services in the Chapel. English worshippers of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries were generous when it came to music, making regular donations and bequests to churches and monasteries, so that masses could be sung for the salvation of their souls. It is no coincidence that the music of this era should therefore have reached new heights of richness and complexity; indeed, England was home to some of the most elaborate polyphony composed anywhere in Europe.

King’s College once owned great choirbooks which furnished the elaborate music for feast days and the major ceremonial occasions of the church year. But these precious volumes have long since disappeared – hostages to religious upheaval and the natural laws of changing taste. Yet some of the splendour of these years has been preserved in the Eton Choirbook, the largest and most valuable collection of early Tudor church music to have come down to us, and still housed at Eton College in Windsor. Its sheer size along with the lavish, illuminated script, reflect the high status of the royal institution for which it was produced. Assembled between 1490 and 1502, the manuscript contains music copied from a variety of sources, probably including the lost choirbooks of Eton’s sister foundation.

This double album includes two recordings never published before: Robert Hacomplaynt’s Marian Antiphon: Salve Regina, and Robert Fayrfax’s Magnificat ‘Regale’, both from the Eton Choirbook. The other recordings in the album include works from the Early English Polyphony era, by composers John Taverner, Christopher Tye, Thomas Morley and last but not least Thomas Tallis.

Early English Polyphony

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