Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae

Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae (1589)

The Choir of New College Oxford - Edward Higginbottom
CRD 3420

Contents:

1. In resurrectione tua
2. Aspice Domine de sede
3. Vide Domine afflictionem
4. Domine tu iurasti
5. Vigilate
6. Domine secundum multitudinem
7. Tristitia et anxietas
8. Ne irascaris Domine
9. O quam gloriosum

Playing time: 51'

Recording date: July 1983

This is a recording by a large choir of men and boys. The 1589 publication of motets "Cantiones Sacrae" is Byrd's most polished and technically intricate. This is only a relatively small selection from the publication.

The later publication (1591) does not represent a new style so much as a recycling of material which didn't make it into the first publication. A recording:

Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae (1591)

The Choir of New College Oxford - Edward Higginbottom
CRD 3439

There was also a joint publication with Tallis in 1575:

Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae (1575)

The Choir of New College Oxford - Edward Higginbottom
CRD 3492

Tallis: Motets from Cantiones Sacrae (1575)

The Choir of New College Oxford - Edward Higginbottom
CRD 3429

The 3 Byrd volumes have been reissued as a 3CD set, CRD 5003.

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