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Track(s) taken from CDGIM047

Salva nos, Domine

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The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (conductor)
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Merton College Chapel, Oxford, United Kingdom
Produced by Steve C Smith & Peter Phillips
Engineered by Philip Hobbs
Release date: October 2012
Total duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds

Cover artwork: Resting lamb and head of a lamb. Hans Holbein the Younger (c1497-1543)
Kunstmuseum, Basel / akg-images
 

Reviews

‘The Apollonian art of the Tallis Scholars seems to have found in Mouton's balanced and masterly counterpoint a language which exactly suits them. As in the past with Palestrina—and perhaps even more with Josquin—their singing thrills; and makes thrilling the rediscovery of a master of masters’ (Diapason, France)» More

‘The Tallis Scholars and their perfect phrasing have caused a forgotten composer from the Renaissance, Jean Mouton, to be born again’ (Classica, France)» More
Like many motets composed around 1500, this one is cleverer than it sounds. Jean Mouton made it by taking a plainchant melody and working it in canon: two voices sing the tune, but starting at different times and on different notes. He then added four more parts, embedding the canon in sumptuously rich polyphony. The words come from the evening service of Compline: ‘Save us, Lord, whilst awake, guard us whilst sleeping’.

from notes by John Milsom © 2013

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