Program: #92-32🎁 Air Date: Aug 10, 1992
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Continues in: ⮞ #92-36 🔊🎁The Tallis Scholars at Utrecht: Part II
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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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