Tallis: Salve Intemerata & Other Sacred Music - THE CARDINALL'S MUSICK, ANDREW CARWOOD

The Cardinall’s Musick and Andrew Carwood continue their exploration of the sacred music of the acknowledged master of the Tudor era, Thomas Tallis. This project follows the completion of their multi-award-winning series of Byrd’s Latin music.

Tallis’s career spans the reigns of four radically different and difficult monarchs, all of whom forced their own religious beliefs on an increasingly divided country. Their various attitudes to the religious questions of the day meant that each required different liturgies and different music to adorn them. Tallis excelled in every style, and this album contains examples of each of them, from the monumental Marian votive antiphon Salve intemerata virgo to the modest English-texted settings of I call and cry to thee and of Psalm translations by Elizabeth I’s Archbishop, Matthew Parker.

1 O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit[2'58]

Missa Salve intemerata[21'03]
2 Gloria[5'05]
3 Credo[6'02]
4 Sanctus[2'52]
5 Benedictus[2'34]
6 Agnus Dei[4'30]

7 Man blest no doubt  (No 1 of 9 Psalm Tunes)[3'41]
Robert Evans (bass)

8 I call and cry to thee[3'42]
9 If ye love me[2'24]
10 Domine, quis habitabit?[8'15]
11 A new commandment[2'58]
12 Alleluia. Ora pro nobis[4'00]
Robert Evans (bass), Robert Rice (baritone)

13 Let God arise  (No 2 of 9 Psalm Tunes)[3'35]
Robert Rice (baritone)
14 Salve intemerata virgo[16'06]