Description:

• 2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
• 4 3/4 in.
• digital
• optical
• 1.4 m/s
• stereo
• digital recording

Notes:

• Compact discs.
• Originally released 1980-1998.
• Program notes by Peter Phillips in English with French and German translations, and song texts in Latin (one in English) with English, French and German translations (35 p.) in container.
• The Tallis Scholars.
• Sung in Latin, and 6th work (Disc 2) sung in English.

Contents:

• Disc 1. Miserere / Allegri (12:28)
• Ave Maria for double choir / Victoria (4:49)
• Sicut lilium I / Palestrina (4:45)
• Praeter rerum seriem / Josquin (7:21)
• Pater peccavi / Crecquillon (8:39)
• Ego flos campi / Clemens (4:09)
• Tota pulchra es / Isaac (8:57)
• Descendi in hortum meum / Rore (5:26)
• Alma redemptoris mater (3:07) ; Salve regina (3:58) ; Ave regina caelorum (3:52) / Lassus
• Gloria from Missa Et ecce terrae motus / Brumel (9:36).

• Disc 2. Media vita / Sheppard (21:34)
• In manus tuas (2:11) ; O nata lux (2:05) ; Audivi vocem (4:11) / Tallis
• Exaudiat te Dominus / White (9:46)
• Ah, Robin (2:31) ; Salve regina (13:51) / Cornysh
• Mass for 5 voices / Byrd (22:23).

Publisher or Distributor Number: CDGIM 201

Control Number: 821100

UPC: 755138120129

Subjects:

• Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied.
• Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied.
• Masses, Unaccompanied.
• Motets.

Genre: Sound recordings.

Other Authors:

• Allegri, Gregorio, 1582-1652. Miserere.
• Brumel, Antoine, approximately 1460-approximately 1515. Missa Et ecce terrae motus. Gloria.
• Byrd, William, 1539 or 1540-1623. Masses, singers (5)
• Clemens non Papa, Jacobus, approximately 1510-approximately 1555. Ego flos campi.
• Cornysh, William, -1523. Ah Robyn, gentl Robyn.
• Cornysh, William, -1523. Salve Regina.
• Crecquillon, Thomas, -1557?. Pater peccavi.
• Isaac, Heinrich, approximately 1450-1517. Tota pulchra es.
• Josquin, des Prez, -1521. Praeter rerum seriem.
• Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Alma Redemptoris Mater, voices (8)
• Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Mottetta typis nondum uspiam excusa. Ave regina coelorum.
• Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Salve Regina mater, voices (8)
• Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 1525?-1594. Motets (1569). Sicut lilium inter spinas.
• Rore, Cipriano de, 1515 or 1516-1565. Descendi in ortum meum.
• Sheppard, John, approximately 1515-1558. Media vita... Nunc dimittis.
• Tallis, Thomas, approximately 1505-1585. Audivi vocem.
• Tallis, Thomas, approximately 1505-1585. In manus tuas.
• Tallis, Thomas, approximately 1505-1585. O nata lux de lumine.
• Victoria, Tomás Luis de, approximately 1548-1611. Motets (1572). Ave Maria gratia plena.
• White, Robert, 1535 (approximately)-1574. Exaudiat te Dominus.