Early English Polyphony - Cambridg King's College Choir - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Early English Polyphony is an album by King's College Choir Cambridge, released in 2021. Early English Polyphony includes a.o. the following tracks: “Hacomplaynt: Marian Antiphon - Salve Regina”, “Hacomplaynt: Marian Antiphon - Salve Regina”, “Taverner: Dum Transisset Sabbatum”, “Tye: Mass For Six Voices Euge Bone” and more. The album is a classical 2-CD.

Tudor treasures. King’s College, Cambridge was founded in 1441 by Henry VI. More than 40 years later, Henry VII became the first king of the Tudor era, a period of splendid polyphonic choral music in England.

From its earliest days, King’s College had a fine choir, but the college’s important choirbooks have long since disappeared. Fortunately, Eton College in Windsor – also founded by Henry VI – is still in possession of the Eton Choirbook, the largest surviving collection of church music from the early Tudor period. Assembled between 1490 and 1502, the illuminated manuscript is a treasury of choral music from different sources.

This double album includes two previously unreleased recordings of works from the Eton Choirbook: Robert Hacomplaynt’s Marian Antiphon: Salve Regina and Robert Fayrfax’s Magnificat ‘Regale’. Among the other recordings are works by John Taverner, Christopher Tye, Thomas Morley and, of course, Thomas Tallis (1505-1585), whose work spanned the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Hacomplaynt: Marian Antiphon - Salve Regina
2. Hacomplaynt: Marian Antiphon - Salve Regina
3. Hacomplaynt: Marian Antiphon - Salve Regina
4. Fayrfax: Magnificat - Regale
5. Fayrfax: Magnificat - Regale
6. Fayrfax: Magnificat - Regale
7. Fayrfax: Magnificat - Regale
8. Fayrfax: Magnificat - Regale
9. Taverner: Dum Transisset Sabbatum
10. Tye: Mass For Six Voices Euge Bone
11. Tye: Mass For Six Voices Euge Bone
12. Tye: Mass For Six Voices Euge Bone
13. Tye: Mass For Six Voices Euge Bone
14. Tye: Mass For Six Voices Euge Bone
15. Morley: Nolo Mortem Peccatoris, For Four Voices
16. Tallis: Spem In Alium Nunquam Habui (Peter Stevens Treble)

Disc 2

1. Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah
2. Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah
3. Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah
4. Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah
5. Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah
6. Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah
7. Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah
8. Mass For Seven Voices Puer Natus Est Nobis
9. Mass For Seven Voices Puer Natus Est Nobis
10. Mass For Seven Voices Puer Natus Est Nobis
11. Mass For Seven Voices Puer Natus Est Nobis
12. O Nata Lux, Hymn For Lauds On the Feast of Transfiguration
13. Salvator Mundi I, P.216
14. If Ye Love Me, Keep My Commandments

Label: Parlophone | Origin: Holland

📌 From the Eton Choirbook To Thomas Tallis