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Hark the Herald Angels sing!
HARK! – download from 1equalmusic at Bandcamp
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Sive vigilem
VINUM & MUSICA – download from 1equalmusic at Hyperion Records
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The Lord’s Prayer
SEVEN LETTERS – download from 1equalmusic at Hyperion Records
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Mad World
KNOWN UNKNOWN – download from 1equalmusic at Hyperion Records
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NAXOS
Milestones of Western Music
PASSIO (8.555860)
Born near Tallinn in Estonia in 1935, Arvo Pärt emigrated in 1980 and settled in Berlin. Soon after emigrating, Pärt completed the St John Passion which he based on his new-found tintinnabuli principle that “the melody and the accompaniment is one”. Settings of the Passion are part of a very early tradition in the Church, and in Pärt’s setting it is the text itself which
MUSIC FROM THE ETON CHOIRBOOK (8.572840)
The Eton Choirbook is a giant 500 year-old manuscript from Eton College Chapel, and one of the greatest surviving glories of pre-Reformation England. This recording features the earliest polyphonic Passion by a named composer, two heartrending motets for five and six voices, two thrilling settings of the Magnificat, and an extraordinary canon in 13 parts, Jesus autem transiens. The ensemble TONUS PEREGRINUS has been widely acclaimed, not least for its “richly sung and very well recorded” programme of Orlando Gibbons, L’Estrange, and Pitts. (The Penguin Guide on 8.557681) The Eton Choirbook is a giant 500 year-old manuscript from Eton College Chapel, and one of the greatest surviving glories of pre-Reformation England. This recording features the earliest polyphonic Passion by a named composer, two heartrending motets for five and six voices, two thrilling settings of the Magnificat, and an extraordinary canon in 13 parts, Jesus autem transiens. The ensemble TONUS PEREGRINUS has…
SACRED MUSIC FROM NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL (8.557340)
From plainchant via simple 9th-century harmonies and the virtuosic duets of Master Léonin (known as organum), this hauntingly beautiful sequence charts the birth of polyphony up to the first music in four independent parts – composed by Master Pérotin and sung during the liturgy at the new Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. From the official laying of the cornerstone in 1163 to the completion of the famous Western façade almost a hundred years later, Notre-Dame was the fertile home of singers and composers whose extraordinary handiwork has come down to us in the magnus liber organi: the “Great Book of Organum”. From plainchant via simple 9th-century harmonies and the virtuosic duets of Master Léonin (known as organum), this hauntingly beautiful sequence charts the birth of polyphony up to the first music in four independent parts – composed by Master Pérotin and sung during the liturgy at the new Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. From the official laying of the cornerstone…
THE MASS OF TOURNAI / ST LUKE PASSION (8.555861)
The earliest complete polyphonic settings of the Mass and the Passion that have come down to us are the 14th-century Mass of Tournai from what is now Belgium, and an English St Luke Passion from the early 15th-century ‘Windsor’ Manuscript. Both settings are anonymous and in three-voice polyphony, and the six movements of the Mass of Tournai reflect both the old-fashioned and the more up-to-date practices of ars antiqua and ars nova. The St Luke Passion displays characteristic English sweetness in its harmony, as well as unexpectedly dramatic responses to the events of the 24 hours from the Last Supper to Jesus’s short-lived entombment.
O Lord, make Thy servant Elizabeth our Queen by William Byrd (The Dow Partbooks) – TONUS PEREGRINUS
09/09/2022
JERUSALEM-YERUSHALAYIM – TONUS PEREGRINUS remastered Jubilee Edition (trailer) with DAVID SUCHET
06/07/2022
JERUSALEM-YERUSHALAYIM – Blessing & Cursing (extract)
25/05/2022
William Byrd's Ne irascaris, as sung by TONUS PEREGRINUS from the Dow Partbooks in VINUM ET MUSICA
26/09/2021
There is a green hill far away
03/04/2021
Hark! the herald angels sing (celebration mix) - HARK! - TONUS PEREGRINUS & Joanna Forbes L'Estrange
18/11/2015
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