The Flowering of Genius. Album by The Sixteen
COR16001
£7.99
Album Description
Music from a turning point in history .... the short-lived marriage between Mary Tudor and Philip II of Spain, although barren and doomed, resulted in a glorious flowering of Anglo-Spanish music which saw the greatest musicians from the two nations meeting and working together.The music for a flamboyant Christmas Day ceremony in St. Paul's Cathedral in 1554 was a celebratory focal point of an extraordinary resurgence of the Catholic faith in England, fuelled by hopes, soon to be dashed, that Mary was pregnant.Artists
The SixteenHarry Christophers
Reviews
'The Sixteen’s sound is distilled, ethereal - hard to imagine a more sublime performance.' BBC Music MagazineTrack Listing
Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599)
1. Ave Virgo sanctissima
Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
2. Suscipe quaeso
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
3. O vos omnes
4. Vere languores
5. O Domine Jesu Christe
Tallis
6. Agnus Dei from mass "Puer natus"
Victoria
7. Super flumina Babylonis
8. Vadam et circuibo
9. Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
John Sheppard (1500-1558)
10. Verbum caro
Philippe de Monte (1521-1603)
11. Super flumina Babylonis
William Byrd (1543-1623)
12. Quomodo cantabimus
TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 75.53
