The Spy's Choirbook

 
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The Spy's Choirbook
Alamire & English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, David Skinner

[ Obsidian Records / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Monday 29 September 2014

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Among the musical treasures of the British Library is one of a precious choir book. This was made for Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine by Aragon Peter Alamire. The 34 motets of this collection come from the best Franco-Flemish composer of that time and were first fully recorded here.

"Teasing title, glorious music...The history is fascinating; so is the fabulous music, a tour d'horizon of early 16th-century polyphony, sonorously delivered by the choir Alamire and English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble under David Skinner." (Times)

"The performances are meticulous, the recorded sound rich and warm, and the effect often sumptuous, though at times perhaps a bit too dense for some tastes" (Guardian)

"34 four-voice motets from the first decade of the century by French and Franco-Flemish composers, giving a magnificent panorama of the repertory. Most of them have never been recorded before. Most of the music is performed by mixed voices alone, a small group sounding gorgeous throughout." Gramophone Award WINNER 2015 - Early Music

Tracks:

Agricola, A:
Dulces exuviae

anon.:
Nesciens mater
O Domine Iesu Christe/Et sanctissima mater tua
Maxsimilla Christo amabilis
Sancta et immaculata virginitas
Dulcissima virgo Maria
Tota pulchra es amica mea/O pulcherrima mulierum/Salve
O sancta Maria virgo virginum
Recordamini quomodo praedixit filium
O beatissime Domine Iesu Christe/Fac me de tua gratia ut
Ave sanctissima Maria
Congratulamini mihi omnes
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Dulces exuviae
Iesus autem transiens

Despres:
Descendi in hortum meum (attr.)
Fama malum
Missus est Gabriel angelus: excerpt
Dulces exuviae
Absalon Fili Mi
Tribulatio et angustia invenerunt me

Févin:
Adiutorium Nostrum
Sancta Trinitas
Egregie Christi martir Christophore

Ghiselin:
Dulces exuviae

Isaac:
Anima mea liquefacta est Invenerunt me/Filiae Ierusalem

Mouton, J:
Celeste beneficium
Ecce Maria genuit nobis
Dulces exuviae

Rue, P:
Ave regina caelorum source
Vexilla regis
Doleo super te

Strus:
Sancta Maria succurre miseris/O werder mondt

Thérache:
Verbum bonum et suave