Iken Scholars - The Lambeth Anonymous (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

CD1
01. Salve Regina: I. Salve regina
02. Salve Regina: II. Benedictum ventris tui
03. Salve Regina: III. O Clemens
04. Ave dei patris: I. Ave dei patris
05. Ave dei patris: II. Ave Jesu
06. Ave dei patris: III. Ave virgo fecta
07. Magnificat I: I. Magnificat anima mea dominum
08. Magnificat I: II. Et misericordia ejus
09. Magnificat I: III. Suscepit Israel
10. Magnificat I: IV. Gloria patri et filio

CD2
01. Magnificat II: I. Magnificat anima mea dominum
02. Magnificat II: II. Et misericordia ejus
03. Magnificat II: III. Suscepit Israel
04. Vidi aquam egredientem: I. Vidi aquam
05. Vidi aquam egredientem: II. Gloria patri
06. Ave mundi spes Maria: I. Ave mundi
07. Ave mundi spes Maria: II. Virgo, noli esse nobis aliena
08. Ave mundi spes Maria: III. Christe, fili summi patris
09. Gaude flore virginali: I. Gaude flore
10. Gaude flore virginali: II. Gaude virgo mater Christi

The Arundel Choirbook is one of the most significant surviving collections of English polyphony from the early 16th century. As well as containing invaluable sources for masses by Robert Fayrfax and Nicholas Ludford, it also contains many works by lesser known and anonymous composers of the period.

The Arundel or Lambeth Choirbook is celebrating its 500th anniversary (Arundel College in Sussex was founded in 1380 and dissolved in 1544), and it is fitting that the Iken Scholars have selected a sequence of pieces by anonymous composers (known as the Lambeth Anonymous) that are receiving their world-premiere recordings.

The pieces are a selection of Magnificat settings, settings of Salve regina, Ave Dei patris, Ave mundi spes Maria, Vidi aquam egredientem and Gaude flore virginali. The seven Lambeth Anonymous settings are nestled between mass settings by Ludford and Fayrfax in the choirbook.

This recording was made in the chapel at Lambeth Palace, where the manuscripts have been housed since the early 17th century.

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