Complete Works Vol 7: Music for Queen Elizabeth
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THOMAS TALLIS
Complete Works Vol 7: Music for Queen Elizabeth
Chapelle du Roi / Alistair Dixon
[ Signum / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 30 November 2007
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"an exceptionally high standard of singing ... the crowning splendour is a magisterial 'Spem in alium' ... a breath-taking climax ... the Tallis complete works is one of the most exciting projects currently underway on any early music label. Thoroughly recommended"
D James Ross, Early Music Scotland
Tallis had witnessed the wholesale destruction of much of England's church music tradition, however the ever adaptable composer met the challenges of a new liturgy, its new styles and genres, with the imaginative force of a man half his age.
The years of Reformation, and Elizabeth's protestant settlement, freed the Latin-texted tradition of liturgical propriety, allowing composers to reinvigorate the language and harness it to new, expressive and personal ends. This recording presents Tallis's Elizabethan Latin motets (which number fifteen). The mighty occasional piece, the forty-voice motet Spem in alium, concludes the disc.
Chapelle du Roi is one of England's finest early music vocal ensembles. Founded in 1994 by Alistair Dixon, then a Gentleman-in-Ordinary at the Chapel Royal, Chapelle du Roi has made highly acclaimed appearances at the York Early Music Festival in July 1997, the Utrecht Early Music Festival in 1998, 1999 and 2000, and at many other festivals across the UK and Europe.
Chapelle du Roi comprises 8 of London's most exciting young singers, and is noted for its engaging stage presence in live performance. Specialising in the performance of sacred music from the European Renaissance, the ensemble has two aims in its programming; to unearth music that has languished unseen and unheard on library shelves and is deserving of greater prominence, and to help re-establish Renaissance music as repertoire that can be enjoyed by everybody.
Chapelle du Roi is currently recording the complete works of Thomas Tallis for Signum Records. Of a projected series of nine discs, five have been released, three are awaiting release and the remaining disc will be recorded in early 2003.
Tracks:
1 Salvator mundi I [2:19]
2 O sacrum convivium [3:15]
3 In manus tuas [1:51]
4 O nata lux de lumine [1:54]
5 Absterge Domine [5:31]
6 Discomfort them O Lord [4:37]
7 Domine, quis habitabit [8:29]
8 Laudate Dominum [4:04]
9 Miserere nostri [2:18]
10 Salvator mundi II [2:21]
11 Mihi autem nimis [2:15]
12 O salutaris hostia [2:38]
13 In ieiunio et fletu (Low) [3:59]
14 In ieiunio et fletu (High) [3:18]
15 Derelinquat impius [3:49]
16 Spem in alium [10:03]
