Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212057025
Releasedate: 08-03-19
Owen Rees leads early-music consort Contrapunctus alongside The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford in performances of John Taverner’s masterwork, the Missa Gloria tibi trinitas. A virtuosic work, it has pride of place in the Forrest-Heyther partbooks (in the Bodleian Library in Oxford), which it has been variously argued originated at Cardinal College or at the Chapel Royal. It might well have been heard on Trinity Sunday in the chapel of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey’s palace at Hampton Court.
The work is accompanied by other sacred choral works by Taverner, including his Ave Maria composed for Wolsey’s Cardinal College, Oxford, and one of his most widely copied works, Gaude plurimum – a dramatic work where Taverner exploits the power of his full forces to evoke Christ’s harrowing of hell and the breaking of ‘the bloody powers of the prince of eternal death.’
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1Gaude plurimum16:56
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2Le roy Kyrie03:18
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3Missa Gloria tibi trinitas: I. GloriaI. Gloria12:15
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4Missa Gloria tibi trinitas: II. CredoII. Credo11:10
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5Missa Gloria tibi trinitas: III. Sanctus & BenedictusIII. Sanctus & Benedictus10:11
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6Missa Gloria tibi trinitas: IV. Agnus Dei I, II, IIIIV. Agnus Dei I, II, III09:11
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7Ave Maria02:50
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8Audivi vocem03:53
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9Dum transisset sabbatum06:32