Composer: Jacob Clemens non papa, Orlando di Lassus, Nicholas Ludford, Robert Parsons, John Sheppard, Thomas Tallis, John Taverner, Philip van Wilder
Performer: Ensemble Pro Victoria, Toby Ward, Magnus Williamson, Toby Carr, Elisabeth Paul, Fiona Fraser
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Delphian
Catalogue: DCD34295
Release: 2022
Size: 1.2 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Tallis: I call and cry to thee, O Lord
02. Ludford: Missa Feria IV: I. Kyrie
03. Taverner: Quemadmodum desiderat cervus
04. Ludford: Missa Feria VI: I. Kyrie
05. Taverner: Alleluia. Veni, electa mea
06. Sheppard: Psalm 9: O Lord, with all my heart and mind
07. Clemens: Job tonso capite, motet
08. Sheppard: Psalm 11: I trust in God
09. Bel, Sermisy: Aupres de vous
10. Sheppard: Psalm 12: Help, Lord, for Good and Godly men
11. Wilder: Si de becoup je suis aymée
12. Sheppard: Psalm 30: All laud and praise
13. Lassus: Decantabat populus
14. Sheppard: Psalm 78: Attend, my people
15. Sheppard: Illustrissima omnium
16. Ludford: Missa Feria V: VII. Alleluia. Veni electa mea
17. Sheppard: Igitur O Jesu (fragment)
18. Sheppard: Singularis privilegii
19. Sheppard, Tye, Taverner: O splendor gloriae
20. Parsons: When I Look Back
Following the freshness and vigour of their quincentenary portrait celebration of Robert Fayrfax, Ensemble Pro Victoria’s second Delphian album brings a similar boldness of approach to a wider-ranging collection, charting some rarely explored territory from a time of great religious, societal and musical change. Broken fragments of huge pre-Reformation works, preserved only in lute tablature; the first reconstruction and recording of some of the earliest Anglican psalm settings ever written; French chansons and motets once popular in England; improvisatory organ verses within Lady Mass movements by Ludford; and an English-texted version of a much-loved Tallis anthem that shows it in a quite different light: these forgotten “afterlives” of earlier Tudor music help build a much more complete picture of music in sixteenth-century England.