Tallis: The Lamentations and Contrafacta

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Release Date: 24th Aug 2009
Catalogue No: 93955
Label: Brilliant Classics
Series: Musica Sacra
Length: 63 minutes

Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah I

Work length7:48

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon

Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah II

Work length12:19

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon

Tallis: Absterge Domine

Work length5:17

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon

Absterge Domine: Wipe away my sins

Track length5:17

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Tallis: Forgive me, Lord, my sin

Work length5:39

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon

Tallis: Blessed are those that be undefiled

Work length4:16

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon

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

Work length4:51

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon

Arise, O Lord and hear

Track length2:23

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With all our hearts

Track length2:28

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Tallis: O sacrum convivium

Work length6:09

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon

I call and cry to thee

Track length3:04

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O sacred and holy banquet

Track length3:05

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

Work length2:25

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon

Salvator mundi (ii): When Jesus went

Track length2:25

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Tallis: Mihi autem nimis

Work length2:20

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon

Tallis: O salutaris hostia for five voices

Work length2:33

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon

Tallis: Spem in alium

Work length9:35

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Chapelle du Roi
Alistair Dixon

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Thomas Tallis served four monarchs in his post at the Chapel Royal, and was held in great esteem by his masters and colleagues. ‘Tallis is dead, and music dies,’ said William Byrd, his most distinguished pupil. Tallis was a great survivor of the dangerous shifting sands of religious and court politics in England at the turn of the 16th century and his music displays remarkable craftsmanship. The intensity of expression, and the sheer unrivalled beauty and drama of his work enables it to reach out through the centuries and move the presentday listener. He is one the greatest English composers, and ranks among the 16th century’s most significant composers. This recording brings together his two fine settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and English adaptations of several of his best known Latin motets, including ‘Sing and glorify heaven’s high majesty’ which is better known as Spem in alium – the huge 40-part motet that has become his most famous work. Adapting Latin texts to English became an important task during the 1550s, and the process became known as ‘contrafactum’. Contrafacta survive in the output of many of Tallis’s contemporaries, especially John Taverner.

Tallis: The Lamentations and Contrafacta

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