The Tallis Scholars at Utrecht: Part I

Program: #92-32🎁 Air Date: Aug 10, 1992

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The Tallis Scholars

o.l.v. Peter Phillips

John Taverner ca. 1490-1545

O Wilheime pastor bone

Missa Sancti Wilhelmi Devotio

Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Benedictus
Agnus Dei

Thomas Tallis ca. 1505-1585

Absterge Domine
Derelinquat impius
In icunio et fletu
O nata lux

John Taverner

Gaude plurimum

[From the original program for this live performance at the Utrecht Early Music Festival:]

Dutch

De latere composities van John Taverner, helderder en meer
syllabisch van stijl, wijzen vooruit naar de continentalere
polyronie van Thomas Tallis en William Byrd. De vier stukken
van Tallis in dit programma gaan duidelijk verder dan zelfs
Taverners latere stijl; niettemin is hun afstamming van het oeuvre
van de oudere componist onmiskenbaar. De Missa Sancti
Wilhelmi Devotio is een van Taverners kleinere missen. Hoe
beknopt en economisch het stuk is, ziet (en hoort) men
gemakkelijk als men het vergelijkt met de doorwrochte votier-
antifoon Gaude plurimum, die geschreven is in de voorname,
expansieve traditie van dat genre.

English

Taverner's later works, progressing towards a clearer, more
syllabic style, point the way to the more 'continental"
polyphony of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd. The four pieces
of Tallis in this programme clearly go beyond even Taverner's
later style, yet their ancestry in the older composer's oeuvre is...

[The translation is truncated in original scan; the continuation below is software-generated and may not be fully accurate.]

... unmistakable. The Missa Sancti Wilhelmi Devotio is one of Taverner's smaller masses. How concise and economical the piece is can easily be seen (and heard) by comparing it with the elaborate votive antiphon Gaude plurimum, which is written in the grand, expansive tradition of that genre.

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