Utwory na płycie:

• Ave Dei patris filia
• Salve intermerata II
• Ave rosa sine spinis
• Alleluia: Ora pro nobis
• Euge celi porta
• Kyrie: Deus creator
• Mass: Salve intermerata - Gloria
• Mass: Salve intermerata - Credo
• Mass: Salve intermerata - Sanctus and Benedictus
• Mass: Salve intermerata - Agnus Dei - Salve intermata

This disc is the first in a series of nine covering the complete works of Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585). Not for nothing is Tallis known as the "father of church music" - with his colleagues at the Chapel Royal he created most of the church music genres that we take for granted today.

Volume one in the series of nine contains much of the music that Tallis wrote during the reign of Henry VIII. The two early votive antiphons Ave Dei and Ave Rosa open the disc and it concludes with one of Tallis's masterpieces Salve Intemerata.

Unusually for an English composer of the time, Tallis wrote a "parody" mass based on material from Salve Intemerata. Also included are two beautiful miniatures not previously recorded Alleluia: Ora pro nobis and Euge celi porta. This was the first disc to be recorded by Chapelle du Roi and was Signum Records' debut disc in February 1997.

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Dixon has a canny knack of finding just the right tempo for nearly every piece on these discs, striking the delicate balance between a feeling of relaxed space and forward momentum.

Peter Syrus Music Teacher



the singing is of great distinction"

Jerome F. Weber - Goldberg



the quality of this disc will surely put these talented performers on the musical map

Kate Bolton BBC Music Magazine