V.A. - Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works (10CD Box Set, 2007)
V.A. - Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works (10CD Box Set, 2007)
Classical, Renaissance, Choral | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 1,54 Gb | Scans 13 Mb
Label: Brilliant Classics
Classical, Renaissance, Choral | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 1,54 Gb | Scans 13 Mb
Label: Brilliant Classics
This 10-disc set from Brilliant Classics, featuring the Chapelle du Roi, presents the complete works, including recordings of music that have hitherto been unrecorded. How lovely to have a complete set of works. Tallis lived during a time of tremendous religious upheaval. The succession from Henry VIII to Edward VI, Edward to Mary Tudor and Mary to Elizabeth meant changes from Catholic to Protestant, and back again with Mary, before Elizabeth’s “third way” – a more accepting and moderate form of Protestantism. Tallis lived through all of this, highly respected and admired in his day for his compositions, and, remarkably enough, managed to please each monarch in turn. During his life-time he produced some glorious, inspiring, and deeply uplifting music.
V.A. - Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works (10CD Box Set, 2007)
Contents:
CD01 - Music for Henry VIII (72:00)
CD02 - Music At The Reformation (70:31)
CD03 - Music For Queen Mary (64:44)
CD04 - Music For The Divine Office I (66:41)
CD05 - Music For The Divine Office II (77:55)
CD06 - Music For A Reformed Church (76:19)
CD07 - Music For Queen Elizabeth (61:07)
CD08 - Lamentations And Contrafacta (63:22)
CD09 - The Instrumental Music And Songs I (75:14)
CD10 - The Instrumental Music And Songs II (26:42)
V.A. - Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works (10CD Box Set, 2007)
CD1.Music for Henry VIII [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, 1996]
Ave Dei patris filia
Ave rosa sine spinis
Alleluia: Ora pro nobis
Euge celi porta
Kyrie: Deus creator
Mass Salve Intemerata: Gloria
Mass Salve Intemerata: Credo
Mass Salve Intemerata: Sanctus & Benedictus
Mass Salve Intemerata: Agnus Dei
Salve Intemerata
Total time: 71'52
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 23-25 October 1996, St.Augustine's Church, Kilburn
CD2.Music at the Reformation [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, 1997]
Magnificat
Nunc Dimittis
Sancte Deus
Conditor Kyrie
Mass for Four Voices: Gloria
Mass for Four Voices: Credo
Mass for Four Voices: Sanctus
Mass for Four Voices: Benedictus
Mass for Four Voices: Agnus Dei
Remember not, O Lord God
Hear the voice and prayer
If ye love me
A new commandment
Benedictus
Te Deum for meanes
Total time: 70'32
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 10, 11 & 13 February 1997, St.Augustine's Church, Kilburn
CD3.Music for Queen Mary [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, 1997]
Beati immaculati
Introit: Puer natus est nobis
Kyrie: Deus creator
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Gloria
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Gradual: Viderunt omnes
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Alleluia: Dies sanctificatus
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Sequence: Celeste organum
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Sanctus
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Benedictus
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Agnus Dei
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Communion: Viderunt omnes
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Suscipe quaeso
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Gaude gloriosa
Total time: 64'37
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 28-30 May 1997, St.Gude's Church, Hampstead
CD4.Music for the Divine Office I [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, 1998]
Hodie nobis caelorum
Salvator mundi
Quod chorus vatum
Videte miraculum
In pace in idipsum
Dum transisset sabbatum
Jesu salvator saeculi
Sermone blando
Jam Christus astra ascenderat
Loquebantur variis linguis
Magnificat
Total time: 66'41
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 29-31 July 1998, St.Gude's Church, Hampstead
CD5.Music for the Divine Office II [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, 1999]
Audivi vocem de coelo
Candidi facti sunt
Honor virtus et potestas
Homo quidam fecit coenam
Te lucis ante terminum [ferial]
Te lucis ante terminum [festal]
Natus est nobis hodie
Veni redemptor genitum
Jam lucis orto sidere
Ecce tempus idoneum
Ex more docti mistico
Clarifica me pater I
Clarifica me pater II
Clarifica me pater III
Gloria tibi Trinitas
Iste confessor
Alleluia: Per te Dei genitrix
Felix namque II
Total time: 77'53
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 12-14 October 1998, St.Gude's Church, Hampstead [1-6]; 23-24 May 1999, The Chapel of Knole House, Sevenoaks [7-18]
CD6.Music for a Reformed Church [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, 2000]
Christ rising again from the dead
Preces [1st set]
Venite
Te Deum
Benedictus
Responses and collects for Easter Matins
Commandments
Credo
Offertory sentence
Sanctus
Gloria
Preces [2nd set]
Wherewithal shall a young man
O do well unto thy servant
My soul cleaveth to the dust
Magnificat
Nunc Dimittis
Responses and collects for Chrstmas Eve evensong
O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit
Purge me, O Lord
Verily, verily I say unto you
Remember not, O Lord God
O Lord, in thee is all my trust
Out from the deep
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: Man blest no doubt
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: Let God arise in majesty
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: Why fum'th in fight
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: O come in one to praise the Lord
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: E'en like the hunted hind
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: Expend, O Lord, my plaint
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: Why brag'st in malice high
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: God grant with grace
Ordinal
Total time: 77'53
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 24-26 July 2000, St.Gude's Church, Hampstead
CD7.Music for Queen Elizabeth [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, 2000]
Salvator mundi I
O sacrum convivium
In manus tuas
O nata lux de lumine
Absterge Domine
Discomfort them O Lord
Domine, quis habitabit
Laudate Dominum
Miserere nostri
Salvator mundi II
Mihi autem nimis
O salutaris hostia
In ieiunio et fletu [Low
In ieiunio et fletu [High]
Derelinquit impius
Spem in alium
Total time: 62'45
Elizabeth Franklin-Kitchen, Emma Preston Dunlop, sopranos. William Missin, David Bates, William Towers, Richard Poyser, altos. Benjamin Rayfield, Daniel Ludford-Thomas, Ben Hulett, tenors. Francis Brett, Eamonn Dougan, Cheyney Kent, Chris Adams, basses [1-15]
Emma Preston Dunlop, Angela Henckel, Sarah Probert, Alicia Carroll, Andrea Brown, Ghislaine Morgan, Natalie Clifton-Griffith, Lisa Beckley, sopranos. Ashley Stafford, William Towers, Stephen Carter, Ben Turner, Lucy Ballard, Edward Breen, Richard Poyser, Ian Aitkenhead, altos. Benjamin Rayfield, Mark Dobell, David Barcly, Julian Stocker, Greg Moore, Gerry o'Bierne, Daniel Ludford-Thomas, Andrew Hewitt, tenors. Ben Davies, Robert Rice, Andrew Hope, Eamonn Dougan, Robert Evans, Sam Evans, Edward Wickham, Graham Trew, baritones. Francis Brett, Nick Warden, Cheyney Kent, Jonathan Arnold, Paul Brough, Julian Empett, Paul Charrier, Adrian Hutton, basses [16]
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 13-15 November 2000, St.Gude's Church, Hampstead
CD8.Lamentations and Contrafacta [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, 2002]
Lamentations of Jeremiah I
Lamentations of Jeremiah II
Wipe away my sins
Forgive me, Lord, my sin
Blessed are those that be undefiled
Arise, O Lord, and hear
With all our hearts
I call and cry to thee
O sacred and holy banquet
When Jesus went into Simon the Pharisee's house
Blessed be thy name
O Praise the Lord II
Sing and glorify heaven's high majesty
Total time: 63'22
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 24-27 September 2002, All Hallows' Church, Gospel Oak
CD9.The Instrumental Music and Songs I [2004]
In nomine I [Charivari Agreable]
In nomine II [Charivari Agreable]
A Solfing Song [Charivari Agreable]
Salvator mundi (trio) [Charivari Agreable]
Fantasia [Charivari Agreable]
Felix namque II [Lynda Sayce]
Felix namque I [Laurence Cummings]
When shall my sorrowful sighing slack [Laurence Cummings]
Like as the doleful dove [Laurence Cummings]
O ye tender babes [Laurence Cummings]
Purge me, O Lord [Laurence Cummings]
Per haec nos [Laurence Cummings]
A point [Laurence Cummings]
Lesson: two parties in one [Laurence Cummings]
Remember not, O Lord God [Laurence Cummings]
Per haec nos [Andrew Benson-Wilson]
A point [Andrew Benson-Wilson]
Lesson: two parties in one [Andrew Benson-Wilson]
Tu nimirum [Lynda Sayce & Stephen Taylor]
When shall my sorrowful sighing slack [Lynda Sayce & Stephen Taylor]
Like as the doleful dove [Lynda Sayce & Stephen Taylor]
O ye tender babes [Lynda Sayce & Stephen Taylor]
Ye sacred muses (William Byrd, c.1540-1623) [Charivari Agreable & Stephen Taylor]
Total time: 75'15
Charivari Agreable [1-5, 23]. Lynda Sayce, lute [6, 19-22]. Laurence Cummings, virginals [7, 10, 12, 13] & harpsichord [8, 9, 11, 14, 15]. Andrew Benson-Wilson, organ [16-18]. Stephen Taylor, countertenor [19-23]
Recorded: 13-15 May 2004, St.Andrew Church, Toddington [1-6, 19-23]; 2 August 2004, Fenton House, Hampstead [7-15]; 23-24 May 1999, The Chapel of Knole House, Sevenoaks [16-18]
CD10.The Instrumental Music and Songs II [2004]
Litany [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon]
Verset I [Andrew Benson-Wilson]
Verset II [Andrew Benson-Wilson]
Felix namque I [Andrew Benson-Wilson]
Total time: 26'44
Recorded: July 2000, St.Gude's Church, Hampstead [1]; May 1999, The Chapel of Knole House, Sevenoaks [2-4]
The instruments
The organ tracks of cd 9 and 10 were recorded on the organ in the late medieval private chapel of Knole in Kent, arguably the oldest playable organ in England. Knole was owned during Tallis’s lifetime by both Archbishop Crammer and Henry VIII, his employers respectively at Canterbury Cathedral and the Chapel Royal. There are four ranks of oak pipes (Stopped Diapasson 8, Principal 4, Twelfth 22/3 and Fifteen 2) contained in a rectangular ornamented chest with
the keyboard at the top. The Knole organ has had a chequered history. We do not know who built it, when it was built, when it first appeared at Knole or where it might have been before it arrived. An early guidebook refers to the date of 1623 being marked on the organ, although this is not apparent today. The quarter-comma meantone temperament, with its pure thirds, is well suited to music of this period.
Laurence Cummings plays a virginal attributed to Vincentius Pratensis, Italy of the late 16th or early 17th century, and a single strung harpsichord, built in Italy around 1590, builder unknown.
Lynda Sayce plays a 7 course lute in G by Michael Lowe (track 6 solo), a 7 course lute in F by Martin Shepherd, and a 8 course bass lute in D by Ivo Magherini.
Ave Dei patris filia
Ave rosa sine spinis
Alleluia: Ora pro nobis
Euge celi porta
Kyrie: Deus creator
Mass Salve Intemerata: Gloria
Mass Salve Intemerata: Credo
Mass Salve Intemerata: Sanctus & Benedictus
Mass Salve Intemerata: Agnus Dei
Salve Intemerata
Total time: 71'52
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 23-25 October 1996, St.Augustine's Church, Kilburn
CD2.Music at the Reformation [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, 1997]
Magnificat
Nunc Dimittis
Sancte Deus
Conditor Kyrie
Mass for Four Voices: Gloria
Mass for Four Voices: Credo
Mass for Four Voices: Sanctus
Mass for Four Voices: Benedictus
Mass for Four Voices: Agnus Dei
Remember not, O Lord God
Hear the voice and prayer
If ye love me
A new commandment
Benedictus
Te Deum for meanes
Total time: 70'32
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 10, 11 & 13 February 1997, St.Augustine's Church, Kilburn
CD3.Music for Queen Mary [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, 1997]
Beati immaculati
Introit: Puer natus est nobis
Kyrie: Deus creator
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Gloria
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Gradual: Viderunt omnes
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Alleluia: Dies sanctificatus
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Sequence: Celeste organum
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Sanctus
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Benedictus
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Agnus Dei
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Communion: Viderunt omnes
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Suscipe quaeso
Mass Puer natus est nobis: Gaude gloriosa
Total time: 64'37
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 28-30 May 1997, St.Gude's Church, Hampstead
CD4.Music for the Divine Office I [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, 1998]
Hodie nobis caelorum
Salvator mundi
Quod chorus vatum
Videte miraculum
In pace in idipsum
Dum transisset sabbatum
Jesu salvator saeculi
Sermone blando
Jam Christus astra ascenderat
Loquebantur variis linguis
Magnificat
Total time: 66'41
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 29-31 July 1998, St.Gude's Church, Hampstead
CD5.Music for the Divine Office II [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, 1999]
Audivi vocem de coelo
Candidi facti sunt
Honor virtus et potestas
Homo quidam fecit coenam
Te lucis ante terminum [ferial]
Te lucis ante terminum [festal]
Natus est nobis hodie
Veni redemptor genitum
Jam lucis orto sidere
Ecce tempus idoneum
Ex more docti mistico
Clarifica me pater I
Clarifica me pater II
Clarifica me pater III
Gloria tibi Trinitas
Iste confessor
Alleluia: Per te Dei genitrix
Felix namque II
Total time: 77'53
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 12-14 October 1998, St.Gude's Church, Hampstead [1-6]; 23-24 May 1999, The Chapel of Knole House, Sevenoaks [7-18]
CD6.Music for a Reformed Church [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, 2000]
Christ rising again from the dead
Preces [1st set]
Venite
Te Deum
Benedictus
Responses and collects for Easter Matins
Commandments
Credo
Offertory sentence
Sanctus
Gloria
Preces [2nd set]
Wherewithal shall a young man
O do well unto thy servant
My soul cleaveth to the dust
Magnificat
Nunc Dimittis
Responses and collects for Chrstmas Eve evensong
O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit
Purge me, O Lord
Verily, verily I say unto you
Remember not, O Lord God
O Lord, in thee is all my trust
Out from the deep
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: Man blest no doubt
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: Let God arise in majesty
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: Why fum'th in fight
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: O come in one to praise the Lord
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: E'en like the hunted hind
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: Expend, O Lord, my plaint
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: Why brag'st in malice high
Tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter: God grant with grace
Ordinal
Total time: 77'53
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 24-26 July 2000, St.Gude's Church, Hampstead
CD7.Music for Queen Elizabeth [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, 2000]
Salvator mundi I
O sacrum convivium
In manus tuas
O nata lux de lumine
Absterge Domine
Discomfort them O Lord
Domine, quis habitabit
Laudate Dominum
Miserere nostri
Salvator mundi II
Mihi autem nimis
O salutaris hostia
In ieiunio et fletu [Low
In ieiunio et fletu [High]
Derelinquit impius
Spem in alium
Total time: 62'45
Elizabeth Franklin-Kitchen, Emma Preston Dunlop, sopranos. William Missin, David Bates, William Towers, Richard Poyser, altos. Benjamin Rayfield, Daniel Ludford-Thomas, Ben Hulett, tenors. Francis Brett, Eamonn Dougan, Cheyney Kent, Chris Adams, basses [1-15]
Emma Preston Dunlop, Angela Henckel, Sarah Probert, Alicia Carroll, Andrea Brown, Ghislaine Morgan, Natalie Clifton-Griffith, Lisa Beckley, sopranos. Ashley Stafford, William Towers, Stephen Carter, Ben Turner, Lucy Ballard, Edward Breen, Richard Poyser, Ian Aitkenhead, altos. Benjamin Rayfield, Mark Dobell, David Barcly, Julian Stocker, Greg Moore, Gerry o'Bierne, Daniel Ludford-Thomas, Andrew Hewitt, tenors. Ben Davies, Robert Rice, Andrew Hope, Eamonn Dougan, Robert Evans, Sam Evans, Edward Wickham, Graham Trew, baritones. Francis Brett, Nick Warden, Cheyney Kent, Jonathan Arnold, Paul Brough, Julian Empett, Paul Charrier, Adrian Hutton, basses [16]
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 13-15 November 2000, St.Gude's Church, Hampstead
CD8.Lamentations and Contrafacta [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon, 2002]
Lamentations of Jeremiah I
Lamentations of Jeremiah II
Wipe away my sins
Forgive me, Lord, my sin
Blessed are those that be undefiled
Arise, O Lord, and hear
With all our hearts
I call and cry to thee
O sacred and holy banquet
When Jesus went into Simon the Pharisee's house
Blessed be thy name
O Praise the Lord II
Sing and glorify heaven's high majesty
Total time: 63'22
Chapelle du Roi, dir. Alistair Dixon. Recorded: 24-27 September 2002, All Hallows' Church, Gospel Oak
CD9.The Instrumental Music and Songs I [2004]
In nomine I [Charivari Agreable]
In nomine II [Charivari Agreable]
A Solfing Song [Charivari Agreable]
Salvator mundi (trio) [Charivari Agreable]
Fantasia [Charivari Agreable]
Felix namque II [Lynda Sayce]
Felix namque I [Laurence Cummings]
When shall my sorrowful sighing slack [Laurence Cummings]
Like as the doleful dove [Laurence Cummings]
O ye tender babes [Laurence Cummings]
Purge me, O Lord [Laurence Cummings]
Per haec nos [Laurence Cummings]
A point [Laurence Cummings]
Lesson: two parties in one [Laurence Cummings]
Remember not, O Lord God [Laurence Cummings]
Per haec nos [Andrew Benson-Wilson]
A point [Andrew Benson-Wilson]
Lesson: two parties in one [Andrew Benson-Wilson]
Tu nimirum [Lynda Sayce & Stephen Taylor]
When shall my sorrowful sighing slack [Lynda Sayce & Stephen Taylor]
Like as the doleful dove [Lynda Sayce & Stephen Taylor]
O ye tender babes [Lynda Sayce & Stephen Taylor]
Ye sacred muses (William Byrd, c.1540-1623) [Charivari Agreable & Stephen Taylor]
Total time: 75'15
Charivari Agreable [1-5, 23]. Lynda Sayce, lute [6, 19-22]. Laurence Cummings, virginals [7, 10, 12, 13] & harpsichord [8, 9, 11, 14, 15]. Andrew Benson-Wilson, organ [16-18]. Stephen Taylor, countertenor [19-23]
Recorded: 13-15 May 2004, St.Andrew Church, Toddington [1-6, 19-23]; 2 August 2004, Fenton House, Hampstead [7-15]; 23-24 May 1999, The Chapel of Knole House, Sevenoaks [16-18]
CD10.The Instrumental Music and Songs II [2004]
Litany [Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon]
Verset I [Andrew Benson-Wilson]
Verset II [Andrew Benson-Wilson]
Felix namque I [Andrew Benson-Wilson]
Total time: 26'44
Recorded: July 2000, St.Gude's Church, Hampstead [1]; May 1999, The Chapel of Knole House, Sevenoaks [2-4]
The instruments
The organ tracks of cd 9 and 10 were recorded on the organ in the late medieval private chapel of Knole in Kent, arguably the oldest playable organ in England. Knole was owned during Tallis’s lifetime by both Archbishop Crammer and Henry VIII, his employers respectively at Canterbury Cathedral and the Chapel Royal. There are four ranks of oak pipes (Stopped Diapasson 8, Principal 4, Twelfth 22/3 and Fifteen 2) contained in a rectangular ornamented chest with
the keyboard at the top. The Knole organ has had a chequered history. We do not know who built it, when it was built, when it first appeared at Knole or where it might have been before it arrived. An early guidebook refers to the date of 1623 being marked on the organ, although this is not apparent today. The quarter-comma meantone temperament, with its pure thirds, is well suited to music of this period.
Laurence Cummings plays a virginal attributed to Vincentius Pratensis, Italy of the late 16th or early 17th century, and a single strung harpsichord, built in Italy around 1590, builder unknown.
Lynda Sayce plays a 7 course lute in G by Michael Lowe (track 6 solo), a 7 course lute in F by Martin Shepherd, and a 8 course bass lute in D by Ivo Magherini.