Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works
Volume 1 - Music for Henry VIII

 

Chapelle du Roi
directed by Alistair Dixon

“Dixon has a canny knack of finding just the right tempo for nearly every piece on these discs, striking the delicate balance between a feeling of relaxed space and forward momentum.”

Peter Syrus – Music Teacher
   

“the singing is of great distinction"

Jerome F. Weber - Goldberg
       

“the quality of this disc will surely put these talented performers on the musical map”

Kate Bolton – BBC Music Magazine

This disc is the first 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.

Volume one in the series of nine contains much of the music that Tallis wrote during the reign of Henry VIII. The two early votive antiphons Ave Dei and Ave Rosa open the disc and it concludes with one of Tallis's masterpieces Salve Intemerata.

Unusually for an English composer of the time, Tallis wrote a "parody" mass based on material from Salve Intemerata. Also included are two beautiful miniatures not previously recorded Alleluia: Ora pro nobis and Euge celi porta.

This was the first disc to be recorded by Chapelle du Roi and was Signum Records' debut disc in February 1997.

  
Title Page
Programme Notes
    Texts
Commentaire
    Textes Chantés
Kommentar
    Gesangstexte
Reviews
Credits
Chapelle du Roi
 
Release date: 22nd February 1997
Order code: SIGCD001
Barcode: 635212000120
 

 

1 Ave Dei patris filia
 [15:33]
2 Ave rosa sine spinis [11:14]
3 Alleluia: Ora pro nobis
 [3:57]
4 Euge celi porta [2:28]
5 Kyrie Deus creator [2:28]
Mass Salve Intemerata
6 - Gloria [5:11]
7 - Credo [6:05]
8 - Sanctus & Benedictus
 [5:05]
9 - Agnus Dei [3:56]
10 Salve intemerata
 [15:54]
 
Total running time: [71:52]

 

 

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