Contrapunctus, Owen Rees - The Sweetest Songs: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks III

Signum Records

£13.73

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: SIGCD633
Barcode: 0635212063323
Release Date: 5th February 2021
Genre: Classical

 The final instalment in a celebrated three-part series by Contrapunctus, directed by Owen Rees, exploring the music of the Baldwin Partbooks, a
remarkable treasure-house of Tudor sacred polyphony, some of which is not found anywhere else.
 The collection consists of almost 170 works collected by John Baldwin, a lay clerk at St George’s Chapel, Windsor between 1575 and 1581.
 “*****” - BBC Music Magazine (‘Baldwin Partbooks II’)
 “*****” - Early Music Magazine (‘Baldwin Partbooks II’)
 “Recording Of The Month” - Musicweb Int. (‘Baldwin Partbooks II’)

Tracklisting:
1. Domine, non est exaltatum - Robert White (c. 1535-1574)
2. Tristitia et anxietas - William Byrd (1539/40-1623)
3. In te Domine speravi - John Mundy (c. 1555-1630)
4. Confitebor tibi Domine anon.
5. Peccavi super numerum - William Byrd
6. Domine quis habitabit - Robert Parsons (c. 1535-1571/2)
7. Memor esto verbi tui - William Mundy (c. 1528-c. 1591)
8. Confitebor tibi Domine - John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558)
9. Ne perdas cum impiis -William Byrd
10. Confitebor tibiDomine - William Daman (c. 1540-1591)
11. Portio mea - Robert White

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