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John Taverner (c1490-1545)

Missa O Michael & other sacred music

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
CD temporarily out of stock
Previously issued on CDH55054
Label: Hyperion
Recording details: September 1988
All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: August 1990
Total duration: 50 minutes 32 seconds

Cover artwork: St Michael. Detail of the centre panel of The Last Judgment Altarpiece (c1447) by Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464)
 

All of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set The Golden Age of English Polyphony: 'English choral music at its finest: 11 hours 25 minutes of Tudor polyphony' (The Observer).

Reviews

‘To sum up, it is one of the joys of being alive in the 1990s to be able to hear this incomparable music so competently and sympathetically—in fact ideally—performed’ (Organists' Review)

‘There are so many special moments that if you are a Taverner fan all I can do is to recommend strongly that you sample this CD’ (CDReview)
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