Taverner: Four motets

The Missa Sancti Wilhelmi isn't one of Taverner's best known works, but there's no reason why this should be the case. Though it doesn't have the sometimes rather wild melodic beauty of the sixvoice... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: CDH55055
Label: Helios
Length: 51 minutes

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Taverner: O Wilhelme, pastor bone

Work length3:46

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The Sixteen
Harry Christophers

Taverner: Dum transisset Sabbatum II

Work length6:35

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The Sixteen
Harry Christophers

Taverner: Missa Sancti Wilhelmi devotio 'Small Devotion'

Work length26:18

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The Sixteen
Harry Christophers

I. Gloria

Track length6:39

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II. Credo

Track length7:45

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III. Sanctus and Benedictus

Track length7:00

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IV. Agnus Dei

Track length4:54

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Taverner: Ex eius tumba

Work length15:00

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The Sixteen
Harry Christophers

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All of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set The Golden Age of English Polyphony: 'English choral music at its finest: 11 hours 25 minutes of Tudor polyphony' (The Observer).

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2010

The Missa Sancti Wilhelmi isn't one of Taverner's best known works, but there's no reason why this should be the case. Though it doesn't have the sometimes rather wild melodic beauty of the sixvoice Masses, it's nevertheless an impressive work in a more modern imitative style, in keeping with its model O Wilhelme, pastor bone. The Sixteen perform with their customary clarity and precision, and convey enthusiasm even in the somewhat syllabic Gloria and Credo movements of the Mass, something which isn't always easy to do.
While both the 'Wilhelm' works and Dum transissetSabbatum are among Taverner's later works, there's no doubt at all that Ex eius tumba is one of the earliest. It's firmly late medieval in style, and the intricate tracery of its construction makes a thought-provoking contrast to the pieces in a more 'continental' imitative style. At 15 minutes this is a substantial composition, and one can only be surprised that it's so little known. Dum transissetSabbatum is, however, the high point of the disc, and if The Sixteen do not quite attain the ecstatic heights achieved in the recording by The Tallis Scholars, neither do they fail to rise to Taverner's inspiration.

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