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What you have here is a well-performed sampling of music from England in the early 16th century. Because of the way the program is organized, the listener's mind may try to organize it into something more coherent than that, but it may not succeed. The centerpiece is the Western Wind Mass of John Taverner, which is broken up with secular pieces and then followed by music that might have been heard at the court of Henry VIII. This doesn't correspond to any program that would have been heard in Henry's time; chant and polyphonic sacred pieces, not secular songs, would have been interspersed among the sections of a mass. The justification given for this procedure is that Taverner's mass is exceptional among English masses for using a secular cantus firmus, but this doesn't quite explain why secular pieces should be mixed into it. The good news is that much of the music, taken on its own terms, is exceptionally beautiful. Sample the limpid pastoral song You and I and Amyas of William Cornysh (track 12), whose text in the booklet is helpfully glossed with translations of a few of the more obscure English words. The sacred pieces, in line with scholarly arguments by Taverner Choir & Players leader Andrew Parrott, are sung in a lower range than usual; this has a profitable effect that makes the music less ethereal and more immediate. With a mix of a cappella singing, instrumental ensemble pieces, keyboard music, and vocal solos, there is a greater variety for the casual listener than in most other Renaissance recordings, and it's all very musically done. Recommended even though some may ask exactly why the program contains the things it does.
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The Western Wynde (Anonymous)
Anonymous, Composer - Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble - Uri Smilansky, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
Kyrie (Rex sempiterne) (Traditional)
Traditional, Composer - Andrew Parrott, Conductor - Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
The Western Wynde Mass (John Taverner)
Andrew Parrott, Conductor - Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble, MainArtist - John TAVERNER, Composer
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
My lady careys dompe (Anonymous)
Anonymous, Composer - Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble - Steven Devine, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
The Western Wynde Mass (John Taverner)
Andrew Parrott, Conductor - Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble, MainArtist - John TAVERNER, Composer
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
If love now reynyd (Henry VIII)
Andrew Parrott, Conductor - Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Consort, MainArtist - Taverner Choir, Ensemble - Henry VIII, Composer
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
Preface (Sursum corda / Vere dignum) (Traditional)
Traditional, Composer - Andrew Parrott, Conductor - Taverner Choir, Ensemble - Charles Daniels, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
The Western Wynde Mass (John Taverner)
Andrew Parrott, Conductor - Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble, MainArtist - John TAVERNER, Composer
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
My Lady Wynkfylds Rownde (Anonymous)
Anonymous, Composer - Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble - Kirsty Whatley, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
The Western Wynde Mass (John Taverner)
Andrew Parrott, Conductor - Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble, MainArtist - John TAVERNER, Composer
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
O blessed lord, how may this be (Anonymous)
Emily van Evera, MainArtist - Anonymous, Composer - Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble - Charles Daniels, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
Yow and I and Amyas (William Corynish the younger)
Emily van Evera, MainArtist - Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble - Charles Daniels, MainArtist - William Cornysh, Composer - Robert Macdonald, MainArtist - William Cornysh the younger, Composer
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
A Hornepype (Hugh Aston)
Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble - Hugh Aston, Composer - Steven Devine, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
Wher be ye my love? (Anonymous)
Emily van Evera, MainArtist - Anonymous, Composer - Andrew Parrott, Conductor - Taverner Players, Ensemble
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
Fa la sol (William Cornysh the younger)
Andrew Parrott, Conductor - Taverner Players, Ensemble, MainArtist - Taverner Choir, Ensemble - William Cornysh, Composer - William Cornysh the younger, Composer
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
Taunder naken (Henry VIII)
Andrew Parrott, Conductor - Taverner Players, Ensemble, MainArtist - Taverner Choir, Ensemble - Henry VIII, Composer
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
Audivi vocem de caelo (John Taverner)
Andrew Parrott, Conductor - Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble, MainArtist - John TAVERNER, Composer
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
In nomine (John Taverner)
Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble - John TAVERNER, Composer - Steven Devine, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
Dum transisset Sabbatum (John Taverner)
Andrew Parrott, Conductor - Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble, MainArtist - John TAVERNER, Composer
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
Westron wynde (Anonymous)
Emily van Evera, MainArtist - Anonymous, Composer - Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
Western winds (Anonymous)
Anonymous, Composer - Taverner Players, Ensemble - Taverner Choir, Ensemble - Uri Smilansky, MainArtist - Gawain Glenton, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
Album review
What you have here is a well-performed sampling of music from England in the early 16th century. Because of the way the program is organized, the listener's mind may try to organize it into something more coherent than that, but it may not succeed. The centerpiece is the Western Wind Mass of John Taverner, which is broken up with secular pieces and then followed by music that might have been heard at the court of Henry VIII. This doesn't correspond to any program that would have been heard in Henry's time; chant and polyphonic sacred pieces, not secular songs, would have been interspersed among the sections of a mass. The justification given for this procedure is that Taverner's mass is exceptional among English masses for using a secular cantus firmus, but this doesn't quite explain why secular pieces should be mixed into it. The good news is that much of the music, taken on its own terms, is exceptionally beautiful. Sample the limpid pastoral song You and I and Amyas of William Cornysh (track 12), whose text in the booklet is helpfully glossed with translations of a few of the more obscure English words. The sacred pieces, in line with scholarly arguments by Taverner Choir & Players leader Andrew Parrott, are sung in a lower range than usual; this has a profitable effect that makes the music less ethereal and more immediate. With a mix of a cappella singing, instrumental ensemble pieces, keyboard music, and vocal solos, there is a greater variety for the casual listener than in most other Renaissance recordings, and it's all very musically done. Recommended even though some may ask exactly why the program contains the things it does.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:19:08
- Main artists: Andrew Parrott
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Avie Records
- Genre: Classical
(C) 2016 Andrew Parrott (P) 2016 Andrew Parrott
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