Tomkins: The Great Service

Tomkins: The Great Service

Tallis Scholar - Peter Phillips
Gimell 024
Gimell 454 924

Contents:

1. Te Deum
2. Jubilate
3. Magnificat
4. Nunc dimittis
5. When David Heard
6. Then David mourned
7. Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom
8. Woe is me
9. Be strong and of a good courage
10. O sing unto the Lord a new song
11. O God, the proud are risen against me

Playing time: 58'

Release date: 1991

The first four tracks constitute the great service.

Although Gibbons dominated his generation, Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656) did make a contribution to the anthem repertory.

Other recordings devoted to Tomkins' anthems:

Tomkins: Third Service & Anthems

Choir of New College Oxford - Edward Higginbottom
CRD 3467

Tomkins: Choral and Organ Music

Laurence Cummings / Oxford Camerata - Jeremy Summerly
Naxos 8.553794

When David Heard...

Anthems by Weelkes & Tomkins
Choir of Trinity College Cambridge - Richard Marlow
Conifer 16071

A recording devoted to Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623):

Weelkes: Anthems

Oxford Camerata - Jeremy Summerly
Naxos 8.553209

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