Album description

The USA Tour 2024
The Choral Pilgrimage 2016

Whilst coming from very different eras, William Byrd and Arvo Pärt are both considered masters of sacred music despite having faced considerable persecution for their work. This programme presents six of William Byrd’s works from the Cantiones Sacrae including the monumental Tribue, Domine, and the mighty eight-voice motet Ad Dominum cum tribularer. The three works by Arvo Pärt speak in his unmistakable voice, with its unique blend of ancient and modern, and include his mesmerising Nunc dimittis which is crafted in his bell-like ‘tinitinnabuli’ style.

Artists

The Sixteen
Harry Christophers

Behind-the-Scenes video

Track Listing

William Byrd (c.1540-1623)
1. Diliges Dominum
2. Christe qui lux es et dies

Arvo Pärt (b.1935)
3. The Deer’s Cry

Byrd
4. Emendemus in melius    

Pärt
5. The Woman with the Alabaster Box  

Byrd
6. Miserere mihi, Domine       
7. Ad Dominum cum tribularer      

Thomas Tallis (c.1505-85) / Byrd
8. Miserere nostri

Tallis
9. When Jesus went

Byrd
10. O lux beata Trinitas

Pärt
11. Nunc dimittis

Byrd
12. Laetentur coeli
13. Tribue, Domine

Total running time:  67 minutes