Music from THE ETON CHOIRBOOK

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These performances are commendable, displaying unearthly breath control in the long phrases of works such as Kellyk's Magnificat, and great clarity of texture in the dense counterpoint typical... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Jul 2012
Catalogue No: 8572840
Label: Naxos
Length: 78 minutes

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Lambe: Nesciens mater a 5

Work length6:02

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Tonus Peregrinus
Antony Pitts
Recorded: 11-14 July 2011
Recording Venue: St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London, UK

Stratford: Magnificat

Work length14:43

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Tonus Peregrinus
Antony Pitts
Recorded: 11-14 July 2011
Recording Venue: St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London, UK

Nesciens mater (Sarum chant)

Work length0:46

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Tonus Peregrinus
Antony Pitts
Recorded: 11-14 July 2011
Recording Venue: St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London, UK

Davy, R: Passio Domini

Work length21:21

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Tonus Peregrinus
Antony Pitts
Recorded: 11-14 July 2011
Recording Venue: St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London, UK

Browne, J: Stabat Mater

Work length16:13

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Tonus Peregrinus
Antony Pitts
Recorded: 11-14 July 2011
Recording Venue: St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London, UK

Kellyk: Magnificat

Work length13:49

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Tonus Peregrinus
Antony Pitts
Recorded: 11-14 July 2011
Recording Venue: St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London, UK

Wilkinson, R: Jesus autem transiens - Credo in Deum

Work length5:53

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Tonus Peregrinus
Antony Pitts
Recorded: 11-14 July 2011
Recording Venue: St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London, UK

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The Eton Choirbook is a giant 500 year-old manuscript from Eton College Chapel, and one of the greatest surviving glories of pre-Reformation England. This recording features the earliest polyphonic Passion by a named composer, two heartrending motets for five and six voices, two thrilling settings of the Magnificat, and an extraordinary canon in 13 parts, Jesus autem transiens. The ensemble TONUS PEREGRINUS has been widely acclaimed, not least for its “richly sung and very well recorded” programme of Orlando Gibbons, L’Estrange, and Pitts. (The Penguin Guide on 8557681)

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October 2012

These performances are commendable, displaying unearthly breath control in the long phrases of works such as Kellyk's Magnificat, and great clarity of texture in the dense counterpoint typical of these pieces

Awards Issue 2012

listeners need not expect the crystalline textures of the specialist Tudor music groups in such music. The high-quality recording technique brings out quite a few different kinds of voice here, with different degrees of vibrato and different approaches to musical line; but, within those limitations, the CD is an undoubted success.

April 2013

Unless you insist on boys’ voices rather than those of women, this mixed-voice choir deserves your surely delighted attention...At every turn these are fine performances, excellently recorded by Geoff Miles using new, experimental microphones with happy results.

12th August 2012

This new collection...is exceptionally successful and sonorous...the incomplete chant-based Matthew Passion by Richard Davy makes a strong centrepiece, while for sheer contrapuntal virtuosity you cannot beat the oddest piece, the final 13-part canon by Robert Wylkynson.

4th August 2012

The 15th-century collection of sacred music known as the Eton Choirbook is regularly extolled but far less often performed. So three cheers to Antony Pitts’s subtly expressive choir Tonus Peregrinus...These ravishing melismas seem to lead the ear on and on towards eternity — as, probably, they were intended to do.

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