Chapelle du Roi
The Complete Works - Volume 3
- Type CD
- Label Signum Classics
- UPC 0635212000328
- Catalog number SIGCD 003
- Release date 01 March 2004
About the album
This album is the third in a series of nine covering the complete works of Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585). Not for nothing is Tallis known as the "father of church music" – with his colleagues at the Chapel Royal he created most of the church music genres that we take for granted today.
In chronological terms Volume 3 follows on quickly from the Edwardine music of Volume 2 with repertoire written for the Marian reversion to Catholicism in 1553. Here we meet Tallis the composer of music for the old English liturgy in both a modern “continental” style and a self-consciously old fashioned English style.
The music includes the extraordinary seven part mass Puer natus est nobis of 1554 and the similarly-scored motet Suscipe Quaeso. A speculative reconstruction Beati immaculati opens the disc and it concludes with the monumental six part votive antiphon Gaude Gloriosa.
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11Beati immaculati
03:58 -
12Introit: Puer natus est nobis
03:06 -
13Kyrie Deus Creator, Mass Puer natus est nobis
02:31 -
14Kyrie Deus Creator, Mass Puer natus est nobis - Gloria
07:45 -
15Gradual - Viderunt omnes
03:35 -
16Alleluia Dies sanctificatus
01:57 -
17Sequence Celeste organum
03:41 -
18Sequence Celeste organum - Sanctus
03:42 -
19Sequence Celeste organum - Bendictus
02:41 -
110Sequence Celeste organum - Agnus dei
05:55 -
111Communion Viderunt omnes
00:40 -
112Suscipe quaeso
07:55 -
113Gaude gloriosa
17:11