Tallis - Music for Queen Elizabeth, Spem in alium
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 94005
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 26th October 2009
Contents
Works
Absterge DomineDerelinquat impius
Discomfort them, O Lord
Domine, quis habitabit?
In ieiunio et fletu
In manus tuas, Domine
Laudate Dominum
Mihi autem nimis
Miserere nostri, motet for 7 voices, P207
O nata lux de lumine
O sacrum convivium
O salutaris hostia a5
Salvator mundi II
Salvator mundi
Spem in alium (40-part motet)
Artists
Chapelle du RoiConductor
Alistair DixonWorks
Absterge DomineDerelinquat impius
Discomfort them, O Lord
Domine, quis habitabit?
In ieiunio et fletu
In manus tuas, Domine
Laudate Dominum
Mihi autem nimis
Miserere nostri, motet for 7 voices, P207
O nata lux de lumine
O sacrum convivium
O salutaris hostia a5
Salvator mundi II
Salvator mundi
Spem in alium (40-part motet)
Artists
Chapelle du RoiConductor
Alistair DixonAbout
Tallis had seen most of the old choirs of the monasteries disbanded, and the music destroyed in the dissolution. He had learned his trade in this world, and to younger colleagues such as William Byrd he must have appeared as if from a bygone age.
However, the great survivor was also very open to new compositional techniques from the continent. He adapted many of his Latin settings for the new Church – this practice called ‘contrafactum’ saw many older works given new life. This extended to his masterwork, the huge 40-part motet Spem in alium (which opens this CD) from 1573. Possibly written to celebrate Elizabeth’s 40th anniversary on the throne, it reappeared as Sing and glorify heaven’s high majesty, in which form it was used in 1616 at the investiture of the future Charles I as Prince of Wales.
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