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Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works
Volume 6 - Music for a Reformed Church

 

Chapelle du Roi
directed by Alistair Dixon

"sung with plaintive simplicity, exquisite balance and clear diction, virtues that characterise the whole estimable disc"

Rick Jones, Classic fm magazine
    "The line-up of singers ... is extraordinary ... they ... cohere in a warm collective that is wonderful to listen to"

Allison Bullock, International Record Review
        "Chapelle du Roi's skill is manifest ... the whole experience of listening to them was like hearing was like hearing a rather special evensong in a college chapel"

Mary Berry, Gramophone
            "The singing of the Chapelle is as beautifully flawless as ever ... the crowning glory of the disc is the exquisite account of Tallis nine tunes of Archbishop Parker's Psalter"

D James Ross, EMF Scotland

Chapelle du Roi devote this latest volume to music which was composed by Tallis for use during the reformed services announced in The booke of the common prayer which came into effect on Whitsunday (9th June) 1549. Tallis’s music, together with the associated intonations and Collects (for Easter Day at Mattins and for Christmas Eve), is presented for this recording in the normal liturgical sequence for the day; Mattins, Holy Communion, and Evensong. The recording concludes with Tallis’ nine psalm-tune harmonisations which he contributed to Archbishop Matthew Parker’s Psalter, published in 1567.

Chapelle du Roi give an inspired and historically informed performance of the sacred renaissance repertoire for which they are celebrated.

Title Page
Programme Notes
    Texts
Commentaire
    Textes Chantés
Kommentar
    Gesangstexte
Reviews
Credits
Chapelle du Roi
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Release date: 20th October 2003
Order code: SIGCD022
Barcode: 635212052223
 

 

1 Christ rising again from the dead [4:39]
2 Preces (1st set) [1:08]
3 Venite [3:28]
4 Te Deum [4:39]
5 Benedictus [3:42]
6 Responses and collects for Easter Matins [4:48]
7 Commandments [5:31]
8 Credo [3:40]
9 Offertory sentence [0:40]
10 Sanctus
 [0:34]
11 Gloria [1:47]
12 Preces (2nd set) [1:07]
13 Wherewithal shall a young man [2:16]
14 O do well unto thy servant [2:29]
15 My soul cleaveth to the dust [2:47]
16 Magnificat [3:10]
17 Nunc dimittis [1:46]
18 Responses and collects for Christmas Eve evensong [4:47]
19 O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit [2:05]
20 Purge me, O Lord [1:48]
21 Verily, verily I say unto you [1:42]
22 Remember not, O Lord God [4:34]
23 O Lord, in thee is all my trust [2:42]
24 Out from the deep [1:54]
Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter
25 Man blest no doubt
 [0:59]
26 Let God arise in majesty [0:44]
27 Why fum’th in fight [0:51]
28 O come in one to praise the Lord [1:20]
29 E’en like the hunted hind [0:52]
30 Expend, O Lord, my plaint [1:19]
31 Why brag’st in malice high [0:39]
32 God grant with grace [1:10]
33 Ordinal [0:42]
     
 
Total running time: [77:53]

 

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