Robert White
Born: c. 1538, ? Holborn, London
Died: November 1574, London
Nationality: English
Robert White probably born in Holborn, a district of London, was an English composer whose liturgical music to Latin texts is considered particularly fine. His surviving works include a setting of verses from Lamentations, and instrumental music for viols.
Thomas Morley, in his A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (1597) extols him as one of the greatest English composers, equal to Orlando di Lasso. He notes White's bold harmonies, and includes him in a list of seven eminent Tudor composers that includes "Fayrfax, Taverner, Sheppard, Whyte, Parsons and Mr Byrd." Some MS partbooks now at Christ Church, Oxford dated about 1581 contain the tribute "Maxima musarum nostrarum gloria White' Tu peris, actemum sed tua musa manet" ("Thou, O White, greatest glory of our muses, dost perish, but thy muse endureth for ever").
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New Palestrina from Graham Ross and the choir of Clare College
Graham Ross and his singers perform five previously unrecorded works for the 500th anniversary of Palestrina's birth, interspersed with settings by some of his English contemporaries.
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- Ad te levavi oculos meos (3)
- Appropinquet deprecatio mea (1)
- Christe qui lux es et dies (14)
- Christe qui lux es et dies I (3)
- Christe qui lux es et dies III (1)
- Christe qui lux es et dies III & IV (3)
- Christe qui lux es et dies IV (5)
- Christe qui lux es et dies, setting for viol ensemble (1)
- Deus misereatur nostri (1)
- Domine, non est exaltatum (1)
- Domine, quis habitabit III (2)
- Dominus, Miserere mei, Deus Christe qui lux es et dies IV (1)
- Exaudiat te Dominus (6)
- Fantasia (1)
- Fantasias III & IV (1)
- In Nomine (5)
- In Nomine V à 5 (2)
- Justus es, Domine (1)
- Lamentations 5vv (11)
- Lectio I and II, Feria V in Coena Domini. Heth – Peccatum peccavit Jerusalem (1)
- Ludus Danielis (1)
- Magnificat (4)
- Manus tuae fecerunt me, Lamentations (a6) (2)
- Miserere mei Deus (2)
- Portio mea (5)
- Regina caeli (6)
- The Lord Bless Us (2)
- Tota pulchra es (3)
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