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The Sweetest Songs: Music From The Baldwin Partbooks III / Rees, Contrapunctus
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The Sweetest Songs: Music From The Baldwin Partbooks III / Rees, Contrapunctus

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Composer
BYRD SHEPPARD WHITE
Artist
Contrapunctus, Rees
Format
CD
Label
Signum Classics
Released
Feb 12, 2021
Catalog #
SIGCD633
UPC
635212063323

About

The richest single source of Tudor polyphony, preserving almost 170 works many of which survive nowhere else, is a set of manuscript partbooks copied between about 1575 and 1581 by John Baldwin, a lay clerk at St George’s Chapel, Windsor. This album is the third and final installment in a series of recordings by Contrapunctus exploring contrasting aspects of this remarkable treasure house of sacred music covering much of the sixteenth century. Owen Rees is both performer and scholar, his scholarship consistently informing his performances. Through his extensive work as a choral director, he has brought to the concert hall and recording studio substantial repertories of magnificent Renaissance and Baroque music, including many previously unknown or little-known works from Portugal and Spain. His interpretations of these repertories have been acclaimed as ‘rare examples of scholarship and musicianship combining to result in performances that are both impressive and immediately attractive to the listener’, and he has been described as ‘one of the most energetic and persuasive voices’ in this field.

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 Domine, non est exaltatum 08:43
    Track
    1
    Title
    Domine, non est exaltatum
    Duration
    08:43
    Composer
    Robert White
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  2. 2 Tristitia et anxietas 09:35
    Track
    2
    Title
    Tristitia et anxietas
    Duration
    09:35
    Composer
    William Byrd
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  3. 3 In te Domine speravi 08:02
    Track
    3
    Title
    In te Domine speravi
    Duration
    08:02
    Composer
    John Mundy
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  4. 4 Confitebor tibi Domine 03:36
    Track
    4
    Title
    Confitebor tibi Domine
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Anonymous
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  5. 5 Peccavi super numerum 06:00
    Track
    5
    Title
    Peccavi super numerum
    Duration
    06:00
    Composer
    William Byrd
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  6. 6 Domine, quis habitabit 03:56
    Track
    6
    Title
    Domine, quis habitabit
    Duration
    03:56
    Composer
    Robert Parsons
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  7. 7 Memor esto verbi tui 07:13
    Track
    7
    Title
    Memor esto verbi tui
    Duration
    07:13
    Composer
    William Mundy
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  8. 8 Confitebor tibi Domine 06:14
    Track
    8
    Title
    Confitebor tibi Domine
    Duration
    06:14
    Composer
    John Sheppard
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  9. 9 Ne perdas cum impiis 04:52
    Track
    9
    Title
    Ne perdas cum impiis
    Duration
    04:52
    Composer
    William Byrd
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  10. 10 Confitebor tibi Domine 02:25
    Track
    10
    Title
    Confitebor tibi Domine
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    William Daman
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  11. 11 Portio mea, Domine 06:41
    Track
    11
    Title
    Portio mea, Domine
    Duration
    06:41
    Composer
    Robert White
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees