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Byrd: O Lord, rebuke me not

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

0 Lord, rebuke me not seems not to have been well known in Byrd's day. However John Barnard considered it worthy of inclusion in his important publication The First Book of Selected Church Musick (1641) and it can...

Choral leaflet

£2.40

East: Evening Canticles - Verse Service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Although the Verse Service was not published in East's day it clearly owes much to his printed sacred music. The choruses are scored, exceptionally, for SSATB rather than the normal SAATB, the incipits to the main...

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£4.15

Alcock: Out of the Deep

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Out of the Deep, though not published until 1771 in Alcock's Six and Twenty Select Anthems, bears a much earlier date of composition: 1732, the year of his appointment to St Laurence's Church, Reading. Alcock casts...

Choral leaflet

£2.95

Tomkins: The Lord bless us

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Thomas Tomkins' considerable output of church music comprises 62 full anthems, 56 verse anthems and 7 services as well as a handful of other smallscale pieces. Much of this was published in the monumental Musica Deo...

Choral leaflet

£2.55

Weelkes: Jubilate Deo Ã”Ã‡Ã´ eighth service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The so-called Eighth Service* by Thomas Weelkes is familiar through its evening canticles in reconstructions by Edmund Fellowes and, more recently, David Wulstan. The Service also includes morning canticles (Te Deum...

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£2.55

Weelkes: Te Deum laudamus Ã”Ã‡Ã´ first service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Thomas Weelkes' First Service comprises seven movements. All that survives of four of the movements is an organ part, but there are also voice parts for the Te Deum (ATB, mainly chorus) as well as the Magnificat and...

Choral leaflet

£3.70

Child: O bone Jesu

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

William Child was born in 1606 or 1607 and became a lay-clerk at St. George's Chapel, Windsor in 1630. Two years later he was appointed Organist, a post which he retained until his death in 1697. His tenure therefore...

Choral leaflet

£2.40

East: Two anthems/introits: O Lord, of whom I do depend & Awake and stand up

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The published collections include madrigals etc and instrumental music as well as sacred pieces. The Fourth Set of Bookes (1618) contains twenty works of which four have sacred texts. The Sixt [sic] Set of Bookes (1624) comprises seven anthems...

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£2.15

Philips: Ave verum corpus

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Philips' output includes motets, madrigals, keyboard and instrumental works. His motets reflect both the late sixteenth-century style with its imitative counterpoint and also newer elements such as contrasting...

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Tomkins: Turn unto the Lord

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Thomas Tomkins' Songs of 3. 4. 5. & 6. parts (1622), the last important publication of the remarkable but short-lived English Madrigal School, comprises twenty-four secular pieces and four with sacred texts-...

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Tomkins: Evening Canticles â€“ Fourth Service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Thomas Tomkins wrote no fewer than seven services: three full and four verse settings. Two of the verse services appear to be early works and survive, incomplete, only in manuscript sources while the remaining two...

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Weelkes: Give ear, O Lord

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Thomas Weelkes wrote some fifty anthems of which approximately a half are verse anthems. Many of the anthems survive only in an a fragmentary state and no more than two dozen, including just eight verse anthems, are...

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Byrd: Exalt thyself, O God

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Much of William Byrd's finest church music was composed for the Roman Catholic liturgy but he is also remembered for a number of high-quality works for the Anglican rite - such as the 'Great' Service and the anthem...

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Dering: Jubilate Deo universa terra

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Richard Dering was born between 1575-85. Little is known of his early life but he spent some time in Italy after 1610, soon converting to the Catholic faith. After several years in Antwerp he returned to England in...

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Greene: Lord, how long wilt Thou be angry

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Maurice Greene was one of the outstanding musical figures in England in the first half of the eighteenth century, notwithstanding the commanding presence of Handel. A number of his...

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£3.50

Tomkins: Jesus came when the doors were shut

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Most of Tomkins's considerable output of church music was published in the monumental Musica Deo Sacra (1668). However, a number of his works were excluded from this collection: eight full anthems (four of which,...

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Tomkins: Evening Canticles â€“ Sixth Service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Two of Thomas Tomkins' verse services were printed in the monumental Musica Deo Dacra (1668) where they follow three full services and so are numbered 'Fourth' and 'Fifth'. A further two survive only in manuscripts...

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Turner: Lord, Thou hast been our refuge

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Lord, Thou hast been our refuge was composed c. 1668 and demonstrates the new approach at that time to vocal declamation. Like a number of other verse anthems of the early-Restoration period, adult vocal soloists are...

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Batten: Evening Canticles – First Verse Service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Adrian Batten

Adrian Batten was one of the most prolific composers of English church music during the early years of...

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£4.15

Gibbons: Three seasonal hymns: As on the night (Christmas), Now shall the praises of the Lord be sung (Easter), Come Holy Ghost, the Maker, come (Pentecost)

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

George Wither's Hymns and Songs of the Church was published in 1623 'with music by Orlando Gibbons'. The volume contains fifteen tunes together with three self-adaptations, including Song 46 which appeared, uniquely,...

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Tomkins: Out of the deep (manuscript version)

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Thomas Tomkins' verse anthem Out of the deep is found in a number of early seventeenth-century sources, an indication that it was popular in Tomkins' day. It was also included in his posthumous printed...

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£3.75

Weelkes: Te deum laudamus Ã”Ã‡Ã´ eighth service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Thomas Weelkes' ten Services embrace the full range of early seventeenth century service styles ranging from concise to extended full and verse settings. The 'Eighth' Service*, in the full style, strikes a shrewd...

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Philips : Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Peter Philips was born in c. 1561 and was a chorister at St. Paul's Cathedral, London. In 1582 he left England, like many others at this time, 'pour Ia foy Catholique'. He spent the following eight years in various...

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Tomkins: Death is swallowed up

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The extant material - tenor, organ and text -of Tomkins' verse anthem Death is swallowed up is sufficient to allow the reconstruction of this dramatic and distinctive work. Much of the verse writing is for...

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£2.95

Batten: Evening Canticles – Short Service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Adrian Batten

Adrian Batten was one of the most profific composers of English church music during the early years of...

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Weelkes: Evening canticles - First Service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Thomas Weelkes

Thomas Weelkes's sacred music for the Anglican liturgy falls into two distinct categories: smaller-scale...

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Weelkes: Evening Service: Sixth Service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Thomas Weelkes

Evening Service: Sixth Service by Thomas Weelkes

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Tomkins: Evening Canticles â€“ Seventh service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Two of Thomas Tomkins's four verse services were included in the monumental Musica Deo Sacra (1668) where they follow three full services and so are designated Fourth and Fifth. The other two survive only in...

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£3.50

Weelkes: Give the King thy judgements

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Give the King thy judgements can be regarded as one of Weelkes's finest verse anthems. Its subtitle 'For the King's Day' indicates that it was intended for a particular royal occasion associated with James I - either...

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Weelkes: Jubilate Deo Ã”Ã‡Ã´ first service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The Service incorporates a number of features which facilitate the reconstruction of the Jubilate Deo: (i) its subtitles 'in vers for a mean' and 'for meanes' in several vocal sources for the Te Deum and Magnificat...

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Amner: My Shepherd is the living Lord

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The syllabic word-setting in My shepherd is the living Lord suggests that it dates from the composer's early years; Amner's later works demonstrate a more elaborate approach. It survives only in the Chirk Castle group...

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Purcell : Who hath believed our report?

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Who hath believed our report? is found in just one source, an unfigured holograph score in the second of three volumes assembled by the minor eighteenth-century musician, William Flackton. Although the score...

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Sheppard: Two polyphonic hymns: Jesu, salvator saeculi, verbum & Deus tuorum militum

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Sheppard's alternatim hymn compositions, as with those of Tallis, follow a practice established in England more than a century previously whereby the even-numbered stanzas, set polyphonically, alternate with the...

Choral leaflet

£2.55

Byrd: The lamentations of Jeremiah

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The expressive melancholy of the Lamentations of Jeremiah provided a rich source of inspiration for such major sixteenth-century European composers as Lassus, Morales, Palestrina and Victoria - and, after 1600,...

Choral leaflet

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Dering: Three duets and trios Ã”Ã‡Ã´ Duo seraphim, Panis Angelicus, Cantate Domino

Mixed Voices (S A Men)

Dering's few unremarkable pieces for the Anglican rite were written almost certainly before he left England. He subsequently composed a large number of works, both published and unpublished, including often striking...

Choral leaflet

£2.55

Morley: Two short anthems Ã”Ã‡Ã´ Teach thy way O Lord, The Lord's prayer

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Although Morley espoused the Catholic faith for much of his life, he composed not only Catholic motets but also music for the Anglican rite, including three services, at least six anthems and a set of Burial...

Choral leaflet

£2.40

Batten: Two short anthems: Hide not thy face & Praise the Lord, all ye heathen

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Adrian Batten was one of the most prolific composers of English church music during the early decades of the seventeenth century. He was baptised in Salisbury in 1591 and served as a chorister at Winchester Cathedral....

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Hooper: Evening Canticles - Great [Full] Service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Hooper's Service is variously named Mr. Hooper's Long, Mr. Hooper's Service to Parsons of Wells flat service, Mr. Hooper's Service of five parts to the Organ, Mr. Hooper's Full Service and Mr. Hooper's Great Service....

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Weelkes: Christ rising again

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Byrd's verse anthem Christ rising again was published in his Songs of sundrie natures (1589) and was also circulated widely in liturgical partbooks in the late-Elizabethan and Stuart periods. Verse settings by Batten,...

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Child: Two short Italianate anthems Ã”Ã‡Ã´ Bow down thine ear, O Lord O God, wherefore art thou absent from us?

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Child's compositions for the Anglican rite comprise no fewer than seventeen services and eighty psalms and anthems. His music, which was widely performed in his day, is generally conservative in style and lacking in...

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Tomkins: My dwelling is above

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Thomas Tomkins's substantial output of sacred music for the Anglican rite comprises sixty-two full anthems, fifty-six verse anthems and seven services together with several other small-scale works. Most of these were...

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Weelkes: Evening canticles Ã”Ã‡Ã´ third service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The 'Third' Service* is entitled 'for the organs in F fa ut' in the so-called 'Batten' Organ Book, the work's only source. With its modestly scored verse sections and four-part chorus writing, it was almost certainly...

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Hilton: Evening Canticles: Short Service ('in Gamut')

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The Service 'in Gamut' survives uniquely in a score dated 1814. According to JohnS Bumpus in his A History of English Cathedral Music, 1549-1889 (1908), its scribe, Richard Clark (1780-1856), was a Gentleman of the...

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Tomkins: O pray for the peace of Jerusalem

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Much of Thomas Tomkins's substantial output of sacred music for the Anglican rite was published in the posthumous collection Musica Deo sacra (1668) which was seen through the press after the composer's death by his...

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£2.55

Weelkes: Te Deum laudamus Ã”Ã‡Ã´ fourth service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The reconstruction of the Te Deum laudamus, the only known such setting of the time to include trebles, is facilitated by a number of related features in the evening canticles, notably: (i) the vocal ranges in both...

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Batten: Evening Canticles – Second Verse Service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Adrian Batten

Adrian Batten was one of the most prolific composers of English church music during the early years of...

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Wise: The Ways of Zion do Mourn

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The ways of Zion do mourn is probably Wise's best-known anthem, and it may be regarded as his finest work. With its distinctive melodic and chromatic writing, its mainly poignant mood contrasts with declamatory...

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Mundy: Evening Canticles Ã”Ã‡Ã´ Service 'in 4 parts for men'

Lower Voices

The Service 'in Four Parts for Men' has six movements: Te Deum laudamus, Benedictus, Responses to the Commandments, Creed, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis. Its liberal use of imitation but conservative tonality and...

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Weelkes: O vos omnes

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

In 1990 the American scholar Ross Duffin came across three partbooks (Cantus, Tenor and Bassus) from an original set of six, in Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, dating from c. 1620 and containing...

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Mundy: Evening Canticles Ã”Ã‡Ã´ 'in C fa ut'

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Of the surviving such services of the Edwardian and early Elizabethan periods, Shepherd contributed five, Parsons four and Mundy at least five as well as three more modest settings for men's voices. Some, ascribed...

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Tomkins: Two sacred madrigals â€“ Woe is me, From deepest horror of sad penitence

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The so-called sacred madrigal, which flourished in the late-Elizabethan and Jacobean periods with composers such as Byrd, Weelkes, Tomkins (c.1572-1656) and Michael East, may be defined as a vocal setting of a sacred...

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Byrd: Vigilate

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

For SATBaritoneB a capella

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£2.55

Tallis: Te lucis ante terminum (Festal and ferial versions)

Flexible Voices

Both versions, Festal and the simpler Ferial, of the Compline hymn by Thomas Tallis, edited by Edward Tambling

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Sheppard: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis from the First Service (SSAATTBB)

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis from The First Service (SSAATTBB) by John Sheppard

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Tomkins: Evening Service - The First Service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Thomas Tomkins Evening Service: The First Service (SATB) edited by Edward Tambling Thomas Tomkins wrote no fewer than seven services: three full and four verse settings. The first two full services, as numbered in the...

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Caustun: Yield unto God the mighty Lord

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Recent research has proved that a number of Caustun’s church compositions were contrafacta (arrangements, usually involving text substitution) of works by his English and Continental contemporaries: Yield...

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Hooper: Behold it is Christ

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Hooper's compositional style was highly idiosyncratic and adventurous by the standards of the day. The best of his full anthems is undoubtedly Behold it is Christ, whose survival in as many as eighteen...

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Sheppard: O God be merciful unto us, and bless us

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Sheppard may have begun composing as early as 1534 but much of his early music has not survived, with the majority of the Latin works which remain seeming to date from the reign of Mary I (1553-58). In his...

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£2.95

Mundy: Evening Canticles Ã”Ã‡Ã´ Second service 'in F fa ut'

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The Second Service 'in F fa ut' comprises five movements – Venite, Te Deum laudamus, and Benedictus alongside the present evening canticles – with the opening bars of certain movements...

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Mundy: Te Deum laudamus 'for trebles'

Upper Voices

The post-modal tonality, patterns of imitation and mid-sixteenth century harmony found throughout the Te Deum 'for trebles' and its accompanying Benedictus indicate that they are without doubt the...

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£3.50

Tye: Blessed are all they that fear the Lord

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Much of Tye's Latin music survives only incomplete, but he is known to have attempted a wide range of ambitious styles: cantus firmus compositions, freely imitative liturgical motets, and one elaborate mass in the...

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£2.40

Loosemore: Two short anthems Ã”Ã‡Ã´ Almighty and everlasting God, Put me not to rebuke

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Despite the survival of an organ book which has been proven to be in Loosemore's hand (containing accompaniments for seventeen of his compositions), more than half of his now extant works are incomplete. Those that...

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£2.55

Mundy: Benedictus 'for trebles'

Upper Voices

The post-modal tonality, patterns of imitation and passages of dissonant harmony found throughout the Benedictus 'for trebles' and its accompanying Te Deum indicate that they are without doubt the...

Choral leaflet

£3.50

Parsons: Burial service

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Very considerable uncertainty exists regarding the identity of the composer who wrote this fine setting of the burial sentences, with at least five possible candidates available. In the Chirk Castle manuscripts, it is...

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White: O praise God in his holiness

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

White is best remembered today for his sacred compositions in Latin – mainly hymns, antiphons and large-scale settings of psalms and Lamentations. Little of his English output survives, and much of what does has...

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£2.40

Mundy: Venite 'in F fa ut'

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Mundy's Second Service 'in F fa ut' comprises five movements – Venite, Te Deum laudamus, and Benedictus alongside the evening canticles also published by Cathedral Press (CP104) – with the opening...

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Batten: Blessed are those who are undefiled

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The discovery of the Chirk Castle part-books not only brought to light some twenty previously unknown English services and anthems but threw into question the attribution of a number of works surviving in other...

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Tallis & Boyce: Three Chirk Castle Miniatures Ã”Ã‡Ã´ Out from the deep, Not everyone that sayeth unto me, If ye love me

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The Chirk Castle manuscripts contain a significant number of short four and five-part anthems, which would have admirably suited the small choral forces employed in the chapel but could also have been used as music...

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Parsons: Ave Maria (SAATB) ed. Tambling

Robert Parsons, Edward Tambling (editor)

‘Ave Maria’ sets the text of the Angelic Salutation without its closing petition. Although the closing section ‘Sancta Maria…’ appeared first in 1495 it was not formally added to the prayer until its inclusion in...

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Palestrina: O bone Jesu

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The scoring of O bone Jesu for double choir recalls, at least superficially, the Venetian cori spezzati works of the period c. 1575-1610. Although it was not published in Palestrina's day, a six-part reworking was...

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Bach: Ich lasse dich nicht (I wrestle and pray)

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The motet Ich lasse dich nicht was attributed to J S Bach for some seventy years after his death, according to Leipzig tradition. An early manuscript, lacking the final chorale and with no indication of the...

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Victoria, Lassus, Handl: Three sixteenth-century settings of Ave Maria

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The familiar Ave Maria text has provided an important source of inspiration for composers of sacred music from the tenth century to the present day, but particularly those of the sixteenth and early...

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Palestrina: Missa Iste Confessor

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Although Palestrina's Motets constitute an important contribution to the sacred repertoire, it is his Masses, above all, with their enormous variety and consummate polyphonic skill, which have secured him an...

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£3.75

Gabrieli: Beata es, Virgo Maria

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

The six-part motet Beata es, Virgo Maria appeared in the 1597 publication. Although it is one of the collection's more modestly laid-out pieces, it demonstrates many of the stylistic features characteristic...

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Victoria: Missa Simile est regnum caelorum

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Tomas Luis de Victoria was the leading Spanish composer of the late sixteenth century and one of the most important composers of the period. Born in Avila in 1548, he left Spain c. 1565 to study in Rome where he...

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£3.50

Lassus: Missa super Bella AmfitritÃ”Ã‡Ã– altera

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Orlando de Lassus (c.1532-1594) excelled in every compositional genre of his time, whether it be Masses and motets, Magnificats and Passions or madrigals and lieder. His vast output survives in many contemporary sources, but much has since been...

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£4.45

Lassus: Quicumque Christum quaeritis

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

Quicumque Christum quaeritis by Orlando de Lassus (SATB Chorus) The Vesper Hymn Quicumque Christum quaeritis is the twelfth and last poem in the Cathemerino of Prudentius, originally written in honour of the Epiphany. It is sung at both Matins...

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£3.30

Victoria: Veni sponsa Christi

Mixed Voices (SATB+)

TOMâ”œÃ¼S LUIS DE VICTORIA: Veni sponsa Christi

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£2.70

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