Tallis: Complete Works - Volume 8

Tallis: Complete Works - Volume 8
Lamentations and Contrafacta
Chapelle du Roi - Alistair Dixon
Signum 036

Contents:

  1. Lamentations of Jeremiah I
  2. Lamentations of Jeremiah II
  3. Wipe away my sins
  4. Forgive me, Lord, my sin
  5. Blessed are those that be undefiled
  6. Arise, O Lord, and hear
  7. With all our hearts
  8. I call and cry to thee
  9. O sacred and holy banquet
  10. When Jesus went into Simon the Pharisee's house
  11. Blessed be thy name
  12. O Praise the Lord II
  13. Sing and glorify heaven's high majesty

Performers: Elizabeth Franklin-Kitchen (soprano), Emma Preston Dunlop (soprano), Carolyn Simpson (soprano), William Missin (alto), David Bates (alto), Richard Poyser (alto), Stephen Taylor (alto), Benjamin Rayfield (tenor), Daniel Ludford-Thomas (tenor), Mark Dobell (tenor), Nick Todd (tenor), Francis Brett (bass), Eamonn Dougan (bass), Cheyney Kent (bass), Edward Price (bass), Robert Rice (bass)

Playing time: 63'

Recording date: September 2002 (Gospel Oak); released: 2004

All works are in five parts, except for the final track, in 40 parts. The majority of the program consists of English contrafacta of Latin motets.

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