Isaac sacred music

Heinrich Isaac: Missa de Apostolis
Tallis Scholars - Peter Phillips
Gimell 023
Gimell 454 923

Contents:

    Missa de Apostolis (à 6)

  1. Kyrie
  2. Gloria
  3. Sanctus & Benedictus
  4. Agnus Dei
  5. Motets

  6. Optime pastor
  7. Tota pulchra es
  8. Regina caeli laetare
  9. Resurrexi et adhuc tecum sum
  10. Virgo prudentissima

Performers: Ruth Holton, Deborah Roberts, Tessa Bonner, Sally Dunkley, Robert Harre-Jones, Adrian Hill, Charles Daniels, Nicolas Robertson, Stephen Charlesworth, Donald Greig, Francis Steele, Jeremy White, Mark Padmore, Angus Smith

Playing time: 75'

Release date: 1991

Excerpts:
[1]-[4] Gimell CDGIM 211 [CD] The Tallis Scholars Sing Flemish Masters

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 15/3- (January / February 1991)

Isaac is one of the best-known composers of the era, especially for his use of spacious sonorities. His Missa de Apostolis does not include a Credo, apparently because this was not customary in Germany (Vienna, actually) at the time he wrote it.

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Todd M. McComb