SDG 720 | 1 CD (13 tracks)
This album brings together six English composers whose combined careers span more than a century – Byrd, Tallis, Morley, Philips, White and Tomkins.
Monteverdi Choir
John Eliot Gardiner
Description
SDG 720 | 1 CD (13 tracks)
This album brings together six English composers whose combined careers span more than a century – Byrd, Tallis, Morley, Philips, White and Tomkins.
Monteverdi Choir
John Eliot Gardiner
The title Vigilate! (Be watchful!) epitomises the clandestine character of recusant music-making in Elizabethan England, by undercover Catholic composers of the time. The pieces on this recording display the richly imaginative, devout and diverse responses of musical craftsmen who worked with unfailing creativity in difficult times.
The album comes in our usual casebook packaging and contains a 36 pages booklet with notes by Kerry McCarthy and texts in German, English and French.
Recorded in London, June 2013
Track | Title | Duration | |
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1 |
Ecce vicit Leo (P. Philips) |
2:24 |
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2 |
Christe qui lux es et dies (R. White) |
3:38 |
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3 |
Scuscipe quaeso Dominus (T. Tallis) |
10.09 |
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4 |
O nata lux de lumine (T. Tallis) |
1:46 |
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5 |
Laudibus in sanctis (W. Byrd) |
4:06 |
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6 |
Civitas sancti tui |
5:27 |
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7 |
Turn our captivity, O Lord (W. Byrd) |
4:19 |
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8 |
Nunc dimittis (W. Byrd) |
8:43 |
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9 |
Vigilate (W. Byrd) |
4:08 |
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10 |
Nolo mortem peccatoris (T. Morley) |
2:52 |
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11 |
Lamentations for six voices (R. White) |
19:28 |
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12 |
Justorum animae (W. Byrd) |
3.18 |
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13 |
Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom (T. Tomkins) |
7:12 |
