Tallis Lamentations / Motets / Consorts

Tallis: Lamentations, Motets, String Music
Theatre of Voices - Paul Hillier / The King's Noyse - David Douglass
Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7154

Contents:

  1. Lamentations, First Set
  2. Lamentations, Second Set
  3. Absterge Domine (strings)
  4. In jejunio et fletu
  5. If ye love me
  6. O sacrum convivium (strings)
  7. Audivi vocem
  8. Derelinquit impius
  9. Salvator mundi
  10. A solfing song (strings)
  11. In nomine (strings)
  12. Benedictus
  13. Fond youth is a bubble (strings)
  14. Third Tune for Archbishop Parker's Psalter "Why fum'th in sight"
  15. Like as the doleful dove (strings)
  16. Eighth Tune for Archbishop Parker's Psalter "Tallis' Cannon"
  17. When shall my sorrowful sighing slake (strings)
  18. Te lucis ante terminum

Performers: Elisabeth Engan, Ruth Escher, Andrea Fullington, Claire Kelm (sopranos); Suzanne Elder Wallace, Elisabeth Eliassen, Amelia Triest (altos); Alan Bennett, Mark Daniel, Paul Elliott, Neal Rogers (tenors); Hugh Davies, Thomas Hart, Paul Hillier, Boyd Jarrell, Kari Kaarna (bass); David Douglass, Robert Mealy (violins); Scott Metcalfe, Jane Starkman (violas); Emily Walhout (cello)

Playing time: 71'

Recording date: February & April 1995;
Rel.: 1995

Excerpts:
[9], [14], [16] Harmonia Mundi "Century" HMX 290 8170 [CD] A History of Music, vol. 8: Messes et Motets de la Renaissance (1500-1600 / Renaissance Masses and Motets (1500-1600) - Musique sacrée de la Renaissance / Renaissance Sacred Music
[24] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 8016.20 Musique de la Renaissance Music - L'Europe Musicale au XVe et XVIe siècles

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Todd M. McComb