An Immortal Legacy
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BRITTEN / MacMILLAN / BYRD / TALLIS / TIPPETT
An Immortal Legacy
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
[ Coro / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 29 April 2013
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16th-century England was a place of much religious change. It was a dangerous and confusing time and it is testament to their incredible skill and musical mastery that composers like Tallis and Byrd were able to produce such magnificent works in such troubled times. Their music left a lasting legacy, influencing some of our most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century composers and surviving over half a millennium to be performed as widely today as they have ever been.
This disc features some of the best-loved classics of Tudor and Jacobean church music together with madrigals by Tallis, Byrd and Gibbons. They are performed alongside pieces by Britten, Tippett and MacMillan including the Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time and the Choral Dances from Gloriana. The Sixteen has performed this repertoire around the world over the last six years and is one of the ensemble's most popular concert programmes.
Tracks:
Britten:
Choral Dances from Gloriana, Op. 53
Byrd:
The sweet and merry month of May
Laudibus in sanctis
Chilcott:
Tallis Canon
Gibbons, O:
The Silver Swan
MacMillan:
The Strathclyde Motets: Sedebit Dominus Rex
The Strathclyde Motets: Mitte manum tuam
Morley:
April is in My Mistress' Face
Tallis:
Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter
Salvator mundi
O nata lux de lumine 5vv
O sacrum convivium
Loquebantur variis linguis
Veni creator: Come Holy Ghost
Tippett:
A Child of Our Time
