Masses & motets / William Byrd ; Thomas Tallis.

Format:

Datafile

Author/Creator:

Byrd, William, 1539 or 1540-1623.

Contributor:

Motets.

Holten, Bo, conductor.

BBC Singers, performer.

Standardized Title:

Masses, singers (4)

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Masses, Unaccompanied.

Physical Description:

1 computer optical disc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[London] : BBC Music Magazine, [1998]

Language Note:

Sung in Latin.

System Details:

System requirements for CD-ROM: Windows 3.x or 95; at least 4MB RAM; 6MB free hard disk space; 256 color (640 x 480) monitor; CD-Extra compatible CD-ROM drive; sound card and speakers or link to hi-fi; mouse. The audio portion of the disc may be played in a standard CD player.

digital

optical

data file

Contents:

Mass for four voices / Byrd (22:26)

O nata lux de lumine (2:06) ; In jejunio et fletu (4:56) / Thomas Tallis

Ave verum corpus / Byrd (4:22)

Suscipe quaeso Domino (8:41) ; Mass Puer natus est nobis (24:39) / Tallis.

Participant:

BBC Singers ; Bo Holten, conductor.

Notes:

The 2nd alto part of the Sanctus and Agnus Dei, and a portion of the bass part of the Agnus Dei of the Tallis Mass have been reconstructed by Sally Dunkley and David Wulstan.

Title from container.

Exclusive CD available only with BBC music magazine.

Recorded at St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, Feb. 7, 1996 (1st-4th works) and St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, London, May 20, 1994 (5th-6th works).

Enhanced compact disc (sound recording). Enhancements include "William Byrd" / John Milsom, from vol. 2, no. 3 (Nov. 1993), with a time line, and brief lists of key works, contemporary composers, and recordings; suggestions for further listening, notes on the chorus, and detailed program notes with texts and translations.

Digital recordings.

Issued with BBC Music Magazine, v. 6, no. 10, June 1998, in which may be found detailed program notes also found on the disc.

"The multimedia program on this disc cannot normally be used on Apple Macintosh computers"--Insert.

Brief notes by John Milsom on inlay sheet.

Contains:

Tallis, Thomas, approximately 1505-1585. O nata lux de lumine.

Tallis, Thomas, approximately 1505-1585. In jejunio et fletu.

Byrd, William, 1539 or 1540-1623. Gradualia, liber 1. Ave verum corpus

Tallis, Thomas, approximately 1505-1585. Suscipe, quaeso Domine.

Tallis, Thomas, approximately 1505-1585. Missa Puer natus est nobis.

OCLC:

63646842

Publisher Number:

BBC MM70 BBC Music Magazine