Taverner: 17. Audivi vocem de caelo (a4) (3:29) - 8th (and final) respond at Matins of All Saints [text: after Matthew 25:6]: Taverner Choir
Taverner: 18. In nomine (2:42) - transcription from the Benedictus of the Mass ‘Gloria tibi trinitas’: Steven Devine (harpsichord)
Taverner: 19. Dum transisset sabbatum (I) (a4) (7:01) - 3rd (and final) respond at Easter Matins [text: Mark 16:1]: Taverner Choir
anon. (early 16th c) - 20. Westron wynde (0:46) - Emily Van Evera (soprano)
anon. (arr. A.P.) - 21. Western winds (a2) (0:50) - song tune and cantus firmus combined: Gawain Glenton (mute cornett), Uri Smilansky (viol)
Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Choir & Players turn to music of their namesake alongside works by his contemporaneous King Henry VIII, an exceptionally musical monarch, and two composers of the previous generation, William Cornysh and Hugh Ashton. With Taverner’s Western Wind mass as its corner-stone, this recording takes its lead from the unashamedly secular character of that work and ventures beyond the chapel door to explore the parallel world of courtly vernacular song and instrumental music.