Josquin / La Rue / Mouton / Alamire / Skinner- Spys Choirbook (CD)
Among the musical treasures in the British Library is a sumptuous choirbook prepared for Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. It was produced by Petrus Alamire, who not only headed one of the finest musical scriptoriums of the age but acted as a spy for Henry against Plantagenet claimant to the English throne Richard de la Pole. Gifted to the royal couple c. 1516 it contains 34 motets, many unique to this manuscript, and includes masterworks by leading French and Franco-Flemish composers of the age including Josquin Desprez, Jean Mouton, Heinrich Isaac, Antoine de Fe'vin, and Pierre de la Rue.
Tracklist:
- Celeste Beneficium
- Adiutorium Nostrum
- Nesciens Mater
- Ave Regina Caelorum
- Descendi In Hortum Meum
- Sancta Trinitas Unus Deus
- Vexilla Regis - Passio Domini Nostri
- Fama Malum
- Quis Dabit Pacem: Doleo Super Te
- O Domine Iesu Christe - Et Sanctissima Mater Tua
- Maxsimilla Christo Amabilis
- Sancta Maria Succurre Miseris - O Werder Mondt
- Sancta Et Immaculata Virginitas
- Missus Est Gabriel Angelus
- Dulcissima Virgo Maria
- Tolca Purche Es - Salve Regina
- O Sancta Maria Virgo Virginum
- Verbum Bonum Et Soave
- Recordamini Quomodo Praedixit Filium
- O Beatissime Domine Iesu Christe - Fac Me De Tua Gratia
- Ave Sanctissima Maria
- Ecce Maria Genuit Nobis
- Congratulamini Mihi Omnes
- Egregie Christi Martir Christophore - Ecce Enim
- Alma Redemptoris Mater
- Dulces Exuviae
- Dulces Exuviae
- Dulces Exuviae
- Dulces Exuviae
- Dulces Exuviae
- Absalon Fili Mi: Absalon, Fili Mi
- Iesus Autem Transiens
- Anima Mea - Invenerunt - Filiae Ierusalem
- Tribulatio Et Angustia Invenerunt Me
Among the musical treasures in the British Library is a sumptuous choirbook prepared for Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. It was produced by Petrus Alamire, who not only headed one of the finest musical scriptoriums of the age but acted as a spy for Henry against Plantagenet claimant to the English throne Richard de la Pole. Gifted to the royal couple c. 1516 it contains 34 motets, many unique to this manuscript, and includes masterworks by leading French and Franco-Flemish composers of the age including Josquin Desprez, Jean Mouton, Heinrich Isaac, Antoine de Fe'vin, and Pierre de la Rue.
Tracklist:
- Celeste Beneficium
- Adiutorium Nostrum
- Nesciens Mater
- Ave Regina Caelorum
- Descendi In Hortum Meum
- Sancta Trinitas Unus Deus
- Vexilla Regis - Passio Domini Nostri
- Fama Malum
- Quis Dabit Pacem: Doleo Super Te
- O Domine Iesu Christe - Et Sanctissima Mater Tua
- Maxsimilla Christo Amabilis
- Sancta Maria Succurre Miseris - O Werder Mondt
- Sancta Et Immaculata Virginitas
- Missus Est Gabriel Angelus
- Dulcissima Virgo Maria
- Tolca Purche Es - Salve Regina
- O Sancta Maria Virgo Virginum
- Verbum Bonum Et Soave
- Recordamini Quomodo Praedixit Filium
- O Beatissime Domine Iesu Christe - Fac Me De Tua Gratia
- Ave Sanctissima Maria
- Ecce Maria Genuit Nobis
- Congratulamini Mihi Omnes
- Egregie Christi Martir Christophore - Ecce Enim
- Alma Redemptoris Mater
- Dulces Exuviae
- Dulces Exuviae
- Dulces Exuviae
- Dulces Exuviae
- Dulces Exuviae
- Absalon Fili Mi: Absalon, Fili Mi
- Iesus Autem Transiens
- Anima Mea - Invenerunt - Filiae Ierusalem
- Tribulatio Et Angustia Invenerunt Me