O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit
Missa Salve intemerata
Man blest no doubt from 9 Psalm Tunes
I call and cry to thee
If ye love me
Domine, quis habitabit?
Anew commandment
Alleluia. Ora pro nobis
Let God arise from 9 Psalm Tunes
Salve intemerata virgo

The Cardinall’s Musick andAndrew Carwood continue their exploration of the sacred music of the acknowledged master of the Tudor era, Thomas Tallis. This project follows the completion of their multi-award-winning series of Byrd’s Latin music.

Tallis’s career spans the reigns of fourradically different and dif?cult monarchs, all of whom forced their own religious beliefs on an increasingly divided country. Their various attitudes to the religious questions of the day meant that each required different liturgies and different music to adorn them. Tallis excelled in every style, and this album contains examples of each of them, from the monumental Marian votive antiphon Salveintemerata virgo to the modest Englishtexted settings of I call and cry to thee and of Psalm translations by Elizabeth I’sArchbishop, Matthew Parker.