Composer: John Sheppard
Performer: Westminster Cathedral Choir
Conductor: Martin Baker
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA68187
Release: 2017
Size: 1.32 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Media vita
01. I. Media vita in morte sumus
02. II. Sancte Deus
03. III. Nunc dimittis
04. IV. Ne proiicias nos in tempore senectutis
05. V. Sancte Deus
06. VI. Noli claudere aures tuas
07. VII. Sancte fortis
08. VIII. Qui cognoscis occulta cordis
09. IX. Sancte et misericors Salvator
Gaude gaude gaude Maria
10. I. Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria
11. II. Gabrielem archangelum scimus
12. III. Dum virgo Deum et hominem genuisti
13. IV. O benigna quae sola
14. V. Gloria Patri et Filio
Cantate Mass
15. I. Gloria
16. II. Credo
17. IIIa. Sanctus
18. IIIb. Benedictus
19. IVa. Agnus Dei I
20. IVb. Agnus Dei II
21. IVc. Agnus Dei III
Even by the standards of a time and place—Tudor England—in which masterpieces of choral polyphony appear to have been virtually an everyday occurrence, there is something uniquely and intensely compelling about the surviving works of John Sheppard. This is music designed to be sung by liturgical professionals, and none rise to its demands quite like Westminster Cathedral Choir.