Gloria Tibi Trinitas

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Label
Signum Classics
Release Date
March 1, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      TAVERNER, JOHN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      The Choir Of The Queen'S College
    • PERFORMER
      Oxford, Rees, Contrapunctus
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 01, 2019
    • UPC
      635212057025
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD570
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Gaude plurimum

      Composer: John Taverner

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus

      Performer: Patricia Drummond, Melissa Talbot

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    2. Kyrie, "Leroy"

      Composer: John Taverner

      Ensemble: Contrapunctus

      Performer: Caroline Halls, Eleanor Bray

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    3. Gloria

      Composer: John Taverner

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus

      Performer: Pandora Dewan, Patricia Drummond, Elspeth Piggott

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    4. Credo

      Composer: John Taverner

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus

      Performer: Elspeth Piggott, Caroline Halls

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    5. Sanctus - Benedictus

      Composer: John Taverner

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus

      Performer: Patricia Drummond, Melissa Talbot

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    6. Agnus Dei

      Composer: John Taverner

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus

      Performer: Patricia Drummond, Melissa Talbot

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    7. Ave Maria

      Composer: John Taverner

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    8. Audivi vocem de caelo

      Composer: John Taverner

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus

      Performer: Caroline Halls, Eleanor Bray, Stephanie Franklin, Elizabeth Nurse

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    9. Dum transisset sabbatum I

      Composer: John Taverner

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus

      Performer: Melissa Talbot, Elspeth Piggott

      Conductor: Owen Rees


Owen Rees leads early-music consort Contrapunctus alongside The Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford in performances of John Taverner's masterwork, the Missa Gloria tibi trinitas. A virtuosic work, it has pride of place in the Forrest-Heyther partbooks (in the Bodleian Library in Oxford), which it has been variously argued originated at Cardinal College or at the Chapel Royal. It might well have been heard on Trinity Sunday in the chapel of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's palace at Hampton Court. The work is accompanied by other sacred choral works by Taverner, including his Ave Maria composed for Wolsey's Cardinal College, Oxford, and one of his most widely copied works, Gaude plurimum - a dramatic work where Taverner exploits the power of his full forces to evoke Christ's harrowing of hell and the breaking of 'the bloody powers of the prince of eternal death' Contrapunctus is an early-music vocal ensemble dedicated to passionate interpretations informed by authoritative insight and understanding. Directed by Owen Rees, a specialist in music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the group presents imaginative programmes revealing previously undiscovered musical treasures and throwing new light on familiar works.