Thomas Tallis

The Complete Works - Volume 4

Chapelle du Roi

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212001028

Catalog number: SIGCD 010
Releasedate: 01-03-04

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This album is the fourth 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.

Volumes 4 and 5 both focus on music written for the office hours – the daily services found mainly in the monasteries that eventually suffered at the hands of Henry VIII’s dissolution. Here we have a selection of hymns and Responds from the Henrician and Marian periods, each matched with their accompanying plainchant taken from contemporary sources.

Hodie nobis caelorum