Haec Dies - Byrd & The Tudor Revival

ID: DCD34104 (EAN: 801918341045)  | 1 CD | DDD - 24 b
Publi: 2012

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DELPHIAN RECORDS

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Choir

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Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
Geoffrey Webber director
Annie Lydford and Nick Lee organ


The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge explores the fascinating relationship between 16th- and early 20th century music as understood by the pioneers of the Tudor revival in England. Centred on Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices - revelatory and inspirational listening for a whole host of composers - this mosaic of reworkings, reimaginings and lovingly-crafted homages is brought to life with all the scholarly acumen and full-throated fervour that are the hallmarks of one of Britain’s finest choirs.

Caius College Choir is one of the UK's leading collegiate choirs. Its members are almost all undergraduates of the College who have been elected into Choral Exhibitions. The twenty-three singers and two organ scholars, under the direction of Dr Geoffrey Webber, perform a wide range of sacred and secular choral music ranging from the fourteenth century to the present day, and have developed a niche for reviving neglected repertoires.



Track listing

1. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Whitsunday Hymn (1930)
2. William Harris: Eternal Ruler (1930)
3. Gustav Holst: Man born to toil (1927)
4. Thomas Tallis arr. M. & G. Shaw: Funeral Music (1915)
5. Percy Whitlock: O living Bread, who once didst die (1930)
6. Gerald Finzi: Up to those bright and gladsome hills (1925)
7-11. William Byrd: Mass for Five Voices
12. William Byrd arr. J.E. Borland: Fantasia in C (1907)
13. Benjamin Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin (1930)
14. Herbert Howells: Haec dies (1918)
15. Robert Pearsall: Tu es Petrus (1854)
16. Arnold Bax: Lord, thou hast told us (1931)
17. Herbert Howells: Master Tallis’s Testament (1940)

Total playing time [70:54]

'glittering precision ... marvellous choral sheen'
- International Record Review