Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner - Vigilate! (2014) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Ecce vicit Leo
02. Christe qui lux es dies
03. Suscipe quaeso
04. O nata lux de lumine
05. (Cantiones sacrae)- Laudibus in sanctis
06. Civitas sancti tui
07. Turn our captivity, O Lord
08. Nunc dimittis
09. Vigilate
10. Nolo mortem peccatoris
11. Lamentations (for 6 voices)
12. Justorum animae
13. Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom


This album brings together six English composers whose combined careers span more than a century – Byrd, Tallis, Morley, Philips, White and Tomkins.

The title Vigilate! (Be watchful!) epitomises the clandestine character of recusant music-making in Elizabethan England, by undercover Catholic composers of the time.

The pieces on this recording display the richly imaginative, devout and diverse responses of musical craftsmen who worked with unfailing creativity in difficult times.

The album comes in our usual casebook packaging and contains a 36 pages booklet with notes by Kerry McCarthy and texts in German, English and French.

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