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Gloria Tibi Trinitas

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Composer
TAVERNER, JOHN
Artist
Oxford, Rees, Contrapunctus
Format
CD
Label
Signum Classics
Released
Mar 01, 2019
Catalog #
SIGCD570
UPC
635212057025

About

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.

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 Gaude plurimum 16:56
    Track
    1
    Title
    Gaude plurimum
    Duration
    16:56
    Composer
    John Taverner
    Performer
    Patricia Drummond, Melissa Talbot
    Ensemble
    Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  2. 2 Kyrie, "Leroy" 03:18
    Track
    2
    Title
    Kyrie, "Leroy"
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    John Taverner
    Performer
    Caroline Halls, Eleanor Bray
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  3. 3 Gloria 12:15
    Track
    3
    Title
    Gloria
    Duration
    12:15
    Composer
    John Taverner
    Performer
    Pandora Dewan, Patricia Drummond, Elspeth Piggott
    Ensemble
    Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  4. 4 Credo 11:10
    Track
    4
    Title
    Credo
    Duration
    11:10
    Composer
    John Taverner
    Performer
    Elspeth Piggott, Caroline Halls
    Ensemble
    Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  5. 5 Sanctus - Benedictus 10:11
    Track
    5
    Title
    Sanctus - Benedictus
    Duration
    10:11
    Composer
    John Taverner
    Performer
    Patricia Drummond, Melissa Talbot
    Ensemble
    Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  6. 6 Agnus Dei 09:11
    Track
    6
    Title
    Agnus Dei
    Duration
    09:11
    Composer
    John Taverner
    Performer
    Patricia Drummond, Melissa Talbot
    Ensemble
    Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  7. 7 Ave Maria 02:50
    Track
    7
    Title
    Ave Maria
    Duration
    02:50
    Composer
    John Taverner
    Ensemble
    Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  8. 8 Audivi vocem de caelo 03:53
    Track
    8
    Title
    Audivi vocem de caelo
    Duration
    03:53
    Composer
    John Taverner
    Performer
    Caroline Halls, Eleanor Bray, Stephanie Franklin, Elizabeth Nurse
    Ensemble
    Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  9. 9 Dum transisset sabbatum I 06:32
    Track
    9
    Title
    Dum transisset sabbatum I
    Duration
    06:32
    Composer
    John Taverner
    Performer
    Melissa Talbot, Elspeth Piggott
    Ensemble
    Oxford Queen's College Choir, Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees