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Taverner: Missa Mater Christi sanctissima & Western Wynde Mass

Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell

These are very sound, lucid performances in every sense…in comparison with the Taverner Consort, James O’Donnell’s reading of Western Wynde is rather softer-centred, but…a work as resourcefully...

Taverner: Missa Mater Christi sanctissima & Western Wynde Mass

Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell

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These are very sound, lucid performances in every sense…in comparison with the Taverner Consort, James O’Donnell’s reading of Western Wynde is rather softer-centred, but…a work as resourcefully...

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Two of the undisputed choral masterpieces from sixteenth-century England, by one of the greatest English composers: John Taverner’s Missa Mater Christi sanctissima and Western Wynde Mass. The five hundred years since the works’ genesis are but as a watch in the night in these sublime performances from Westminster Abbey Choir and James O’Donnell.

Contents and tracklist

I. Gloria
Track length6:25
II. Credo
Track length6:25
III. Sanctus
Track length4:55
IV. Benedictus
Track length3:53
V. Agnus Dei
Track length5:18
I. Gloria
Track length6:00
II. Credo
Track length6:18
IIIa. Sanctus
Track length4:04
IIIb. Benedictus
Track length2:24
IV. Agnus Dei
Track length6:48

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Awards and reviews

July 2016

These are very sound, lucid performances in every sense…in comparison with the Taverner Consort, James O’Donnell’s reading of Western Wynde is rather softer-centred, but…a work as resourcefully inventive as this both sustains and deserves such contrasting approaches

19th October 2016

Performances that are beautifully judged in both their balance and shaping.

7th August 2016

Taverner’s Missa Mater Christi sanctissima has rarely been recorded, not least because a missing tenor part needs reconstructive surgery. Francis Steele has brilliantly effected the rescue, transplanting where possible the tenor from the motet (also performed) on which the piece is based. It’s sung with luminescent warmth.

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