Performers: Carys Lane, Rebecca Outram, Olive Simpson (Sopranos); Patrick Craig, David Gould, Michael Lees (Altos); James Gilchrist, Steven Harrold, Tom Phillips, Julian Stocker, Matthew Vine (Tenors); Robert Evans, Damian O'Keeffe, Charles Pott, Andrew Rupp (Baritones); Nigel Brookes, Robert Macdonald, Michael McCarthy (Basses)
Playing time: 76'16
Recording date: January 1996 (secular songs), May 1996 (Mass and Magnificat), May 1997 (Salve regina)
The mass and magnificat O bone Ihesu were among Fayrfax's most popular works, to judge by their survival rate in manuscripts. They contain much similar musical material (without being based on a cantus firmus), and are apparently related to Fayrfax's setting of the antiphon O bone Ihesu, which survives only in a very incomplete state. The Salve regina, from the Eton Choirbook, is of doubtful authenticity. The secular songs provide a contrast to the large-scale liturgical music with their light three-voiced texture.
This is Volume 4 of the Cardinall's Musick's series of Fayrfax's complete works.
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