Utwory na płycie:

• Beati immaculati
• Agnus dei
• Communion Viderunt omnes
• Suscipe quaeso
• Gaude gloriosa
• Introit Puer natus est nobis
• Kyrie Deus Creator, Mass Puer natus est nobis
• Gloria
• Gradual - Viderunt omnes
• Alleluia Dies sanctificatus
• Sequence Celeste organum
• Sanctus
• Bendictus

This disc is the third 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.

In chronological terms Volume 3 follows on quickly from the Edwardine music of volume 2 with repertoire written for the Marian reversion to Catholicism in 1553. Here we meet Tallis the composer of music for the old English liturgy in both a modern ?continental style and a self-consciously old fashioned English style.

The music includes the extraordinary seven part mass Puer natus est nobis of 1554 and the similarly-scored motet Suscipe Quaeso. A speculative reconstruction Beati immaculati opens the disc and it concludes with the monumental six part votive antiphon Gaude Gloriosa.

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Alistair Dixon, the conductor and founder of Chapelle du Roi, has shaped a remarkably beautiful CD here

Evening Standard

the sound is finely honed and balanced, in the British tradition ... this is wonderful music, wonderfully sung"

Jerome F. Weber - Goldberg