Tye: Missa Euge Bone, Western Wynde Mass - O’donnell, Choir Of Westminster Abbey (2012)
Tye: Missa Euge Bone, Western Wynde Mass - O’donnell, Choir Of Westminster Abbey (2012)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 321 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog Number: 67928
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 321 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog Number: 67928
Christopher Tye flourished as a church musician in England during the mid-sixteenth century. A direct contemporary of Thomas Tallis, he held the prestigious post of Master of Choristers at Ely cathedral and successfully managed to compose music for both Protestant and Catholic services during a politically unstable time. Henry VIII was a fan, asserting: ‘England one god, one truth, one doctor hath for music’s art—and that is Dr Tye’ (Tye himself had Protestant leanings).
The composer was also described as ‘peevish and humoursome’, and these qualities are reflected in his remarkably individual music, characterized by unpredictable cadences and phrases of often unexpectedly startling beauty. The two major works on this recording are his masterful Missa Euge bone for six voices, and his Western Wynde Mass, probably an early work, and likely written as a complement to John Taverner’s own Mass based on this secular English song.
The peerless Westminster Abbey Choir directed by James O’Donnell performs these sparsely beautiful a cappella works with customary freshness and sense of grandeur..
Composer: Christopher Tye
Conductor: James O'Donnell
Orchestra/Ensemble: Westminster Abbey Choir
Reviews: Acute differences in tempo in a given work aren’t usually so distinctively indicative of contrasting musical approaches as they are between O’Donnell on this release and David Hill (Helios CDH55079). Hill takes broader tempos (13:40 in the Peccavimus cum patribus nostris ; 11:39 for O’Donnell, and this is typical of nearly every movement) to carefully sculpt Tye’s vocal parts for their passing harmonic value. Detailed dynamic gradations smooth and prepare the way for the composer’s dramatic use of cadential formulas and occasional word-painting. O’Donnell’s faster readings are more linear, the range of dynamics more restricted, the strand of each voice part slightly more separated out from the rest for greater vocal contrast. Tye’s contrapuntal exuberance and dramatic boldness come more to the fore, as in the sudden stop-time block chords on “Jesu Christe” in the Missa Euge bone ’s Gloria, or the carrying-all-before-it push he finds in the opening phrase of the same work’s final Agnus Dei.
Much the same is true of the rest of this album. In Christ Rising there is no highlighting of the false relations, but a seamless, almost headlong imitative texture that emphasizes its Franco-Flemish lineage. Several movements of the Western Wynde Mass seem rushed to me, by comparison to Peter Philips and the Tallis Scholars (now on Gimell 209), but there’s no denying the professionalism of the Choir of Westminster Abbey, or O’Donnell’s acute ear for balance and tone.
The fine liner notes to this release deserve mention for their brief but effective musical analysis. However, I wish annotators discussing Tye would drop references to Henry VIII’s quote approving his music, as it only derives from a play by Samuel Rowley in which both Henry VIII and Tye are characters; and to a colorful but undocumented, highly suspect incident demonstrating his “peevish and humoursome” behavior in the not terribly reliable writings of the antiquarian Anthony Wood, who was born more than 50 years after Tye had died.
Definitely recommended, in short. Though I would also suggest the alternative recordings mentioned above to get a different view of this composer’s extraordinary work.
Tracklisting:
1. Quaesumus omnipotens by Christopher Tye
Conductor: James O'Donnell
Orchestra/Ensemble: Westminster Abbey Choir
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; England
2. Peccavimus cum patribus by Christopher Tye
Conductor: James O'Donnell
Orchestra/Ensemble: Westminster Abbey Choir
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; England
3. Nunc dimittis by Christopher Tye
Conductor: James O'Donnell
Orchestra/Ensemble: Westminster Abbey Choir
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; England
4. Mass "Western Wind" by Christopher Tye
Conductor: James O'Donnell
Orchestra/Ensemble: Westminster Abbey Choir
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; England
5. Mass "Euge bone" by Christopher Tye
Conductor: James O'Donnell
Orchestra/Ensemble: Westminster Abbey Choir
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; England
6. Give alms of thy goods by Christopher Tye
Conductor: James O'Donnell
Orchestra/Ensemble: Westminster Abbey Choir
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; England
7. Christ rising again by Christopher Tye
Conductor: James O'Donnell
Orchestra/Ensemble: Westminster Abbey Choir
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; England
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