Music for Queen Elizabeth

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Release Date: 26th Oct 2009
Catalogue No: 94005
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 60 minutes

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Tallis: Spem in alium

Work length10:00

$3.00

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon
Recorded: 13-15 November 2000
Recording Venue: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

Tallis: Salvator mundi, salva nos 1 - antiphon for five voices

Work length2:10

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon
Recorded: 13-15 November 2000
Recording Venue: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

Tallis: O sacrum convivium

Work length3:08

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$1.30

Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon
Recorded: 13-15 November 2000
Recording Venue: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

O sacrum convivium: O sacrum convivium

Track length3:08

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Tallis: In manus tuas

Work length1:45

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon
Recorded: 13-15 November 2000
Recording Venue: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

Tallis: O nata lux de lumine

Work length1:49

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon
Recorded: 13-15 November 2000
Recording Venue: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

Tallis: Absterge Domine

Work length5:13

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon
Recorded: 13-15 November 2000
Recording Venue: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

Tallis: Discomfort them, O Lord

Work length4:28

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon
Recorded: 13-15 November 2000
Recording Venue: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

Tallis: Domine, quis habitabit

Work length8:21

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$2.60

Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon
Recorded: 13-15 November 2000
Recording Venue: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

Tallis: Laudate Dominum

Work length4:00

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon
Recorded: 13-15 November 2000
Recording Venue: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

Tallis: Miserere nostri, motet for 7 voices, P. 207

Work length2:13

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon
Recorded: 13-15 November 2000
Recording Venue: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

Tallis: Salvator mundi, salva nos 2 - antiphon for five voices

Work length2:17

$1.00

$1.30

Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon
Recorded: 13-15 November 2000
Recording Venue: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

Tallis: Mihi autem nimis

Work length2:08

$1.00

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon
Recorded: 13-15 November 2000
Recording Venue: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

Tallis: O salutaris hostia for five voices

Work length2:32

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon
Recorded: 13-15 November 2000
Recording Venue: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

Tallis: In ieiunio et fletu

Work length7:03

$2.00

$2.60

Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon
Recorded: 13-15 November 2000
Recording Venue: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

In ieiunio et fletu (Low)

Track length3:46

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In ieiunio et fletu (High)

Track length3:17

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Tallis: Derelinquat impius

Work length3:44

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon
Recorded: 13-15 November 2000
Recording Venue: St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

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Thomas Tallis served four English monarchs during his long life. A Catholic, he survived the tumultuous religious and political upheavals and persecutions of Edward VI and Mary I. He adapted to the demands of the new reformed church, the Church of England under Henry VIII, self appointed ‘Defender of the Faith’. Under Elizabeth I a more tolerant approach to religion emerged – even the ever-present threat of invasion by Catholic Spain did not deter the Queen from allowing her subjects freedom of worship and expression. Elizabeth’s tolerance may have been dueto the fact that she herself was raised as a Catholic, and it is possible that she missed the pomp and ceremony of the Mass compared to the plain and simple Protestant services of her father’s new Church. Tallis had seen most of the old choirs of the monasteries disbanded, and the music destroyed in the dissolution.

He had learned his trade in this world, and to younger colleagues such as William Byrd he must have appeared as if from a bygone age. However, the great survivor was also very open to new compositional techniques from the continent. He adapted many of his Latin settings for the new Church – this practice called ‘contrafactum’ saw many older works given new life. This extended to his masterwork, the huge 40-part motet Spem in alium (which opens this CD) from 1573. Possibly written to celebrate Elizabeth’s 40th anniversary on the throne, it reappeared as Sing and glorify heaven’s high majesty, in which form it was used in 1616 at the investiture of the future Charles I as Prince of Wales.

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