Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi trinitas

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Rees sculpts the musical lines in low and high relief; delicately etched passages – exquisitely sung by the solo voices of Contrapunctus – give way to the sonorous, often seraphic, sound of the... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 22nd Feb 2019
Catalogue No: SIGCD570
Label: Signum
Length: 76 minutes

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Taverner: Gaude plurimum

Work length16:55

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Contrapunctus, The Choir of the Queen's College Oxford
Owen Rees

Taverner: Leroy Kyrie

Work length3:18

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Contrapunctus, The Choir of the Queen's College Oxford
Owen Rees

Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas

Work length42:45

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Contrapunctus, The Choir of the Queen's College Oxford
Owen Rees

I. Gloria

Track length12:14

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II. Credo

Track length11:09

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III. Sanctus & Benedictus

Track length10:11

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IV. Agnus Dei I, II, III

Track length9:11

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Taverner: Ave Maria

Work length2:50

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Contrapunctus, The Choir of the Queen's College Oxford
Owen Rees

Taverner: Audivi vocem

Work length3:53

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Contrapunctus, The Choir of the Queen's College Oxford
Owen Rees

Taverner: Dum transisset Sabbatum I

Work length6:31

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Contrapunctus, The Choir of the Queen's College Oxford
Owen Rees

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Owen Rees leads early-music consort Contrapunctus alongside The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford in performances of John Taverner’s masterwork, the Missa Gloria tibi trinitas. A virtuosic work, it has pride of place in the Forrest-Heyther partbooks (in the Bodleian Library in Oxford), which it has been variously argued originated at Cardinal College or at the Chapel Royal.It might well have been heard on Trinity Sunday in the chapel of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey’s palace at Hampton Court.

The work is accompanied by other sacred choral works by Taverner, including his Ave Maria composed for Wolsey’s Cardinal College, Oxford, and one of his most widely copied works, Gaude plurimum – a dramatic work where Taverner exploits the power of his full forces to evoke Christ’s harrowing of hell and the breaking of ‘the bloody powers of the prince of eternal death.’

Contrapunctus is an early-music vocal ensemble dedicated to passionate interpretations informed by authoritative insight and understanding. Directed by Owen Rees, a specialist in music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the group presents imaginative programmes revealing previously undiscovered musical treasures and throwing new light on familiar works.

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May 2019

Rees sculpts the musical lines in low and high relief; delicately etched passages – exquisitely sung by the solo voices of Contrapunctus – give way to the sonorous, often seraphic, sound of the full ensemble…The female voices of Queen’s College choir sound aptly boyish, reflecting the original all-male performing resources, and their timbre is generally radiant.

April 2019

Contrapunctus and the Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford, fully meet the challenge they set themselves; in fact I cannot remember hearing either in better voice…Contrapunctus are on their own in the Leroy Kyrie, perhaps the disc’s most successful item, and a fitting aperitif to the Mass.

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