Alamire, David Skinner - Taverner: Imperatrix inferni (2011)

Tracklist

01. Quemadmodum
02. Audivi Vocem
03. Ave Dei Patris filia
04. Dum Transisset Sabbatum
05. Mater Christi
06. Gaude Plurimum
07. (Hodie Nobis Celorum Rex ....) Gloria In Excelsis Deo
08. O splendor gloriae



John Taverner (d. 1545) is, arguably, the most famous of all early Tudor composers, and one who had a rather colourful musical and political career. His music represents the final flowering of late medieval English polyphony before the onslaught of mid 16th-century Reformation.

Much of the music on this recording centres around Taverner’s earlier career, including the three surviving large-scale Votive Antiphons. Included, too, is his sumptuous six-part Quemadmodum, which stylistically foreshadows true ‘Renaissance’ composition in England.

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