The Flowering of Genius
Guerrero, Tallis, Byrd, Victoria

Music from a turning point in history .... the short-lived marriage between Mary Tudor and Philip II of Spain, although barren and doomed, resulted in a glorious flowering of Anglo-Spanish music which saw the greatest musicians from the two nations meeting and working together.The music for a flamboyant Christmas Day ceremony in St. Paul's Cathedral in 1554 was a celebratory focal point of an extraordinary resurgence of the Catholic faith in England, fuelled by hopes, soon to be dashed, that Mary was pregnant.

5 star performance and recording *****

"The Sixteen’s sound is distilled, ethereal - hard to imagine a more sublime performance." BBC Music Magazine

The Sixteen
Harry Christophers

COR16001

TRACK LISTINGS

Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599)
1. Ave Virgo sanctissima 4.39

Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
2. Suscipe quaeso 9.43

Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
3. O vos omnes 5.00
4. Vere languores 4.47
5. O Domine Iesu Christe 3.34

Thomas Tallis
6. Angus Dei from mass "Puer natus" 8.49

Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
7. Super flumina Babylonis 4.56
8. Vadam et circuibo 8.48
9. Laudate Dominum omnes gentes 3.05

John Sheppard (1500-1558)
10. Verbum caro 6.50

Philippe de Monte (1521-1558)
11. Super flumina Babylonis

William Byrd (1543-1623)
12. Quomodo cantabimus 6.07

Total playing time - 73.53