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Track(s) taken from CDGIM004

Leroy Kyrie

composer
author of text
Ordinary of the Lady Mass

The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (conductor)
Recording details: Unknown
Merton College Chapel, Oxford, United Kingdom
Produced by Steve C Smith & Peter Phillips
Engineered by Mike Clements
Release date: September 1984
Total duration: 3 minutes 48 seconds

Cover artwork: Illuminated initial in Les grandes heures de Jean Duc de Berry (1409).
Reproduced by courtesy of La Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
 

Other recordings available for download

The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (conductor)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
Contrapunctus, Owen Rees (conductor)
This piece takes its name from a mysterious tune called ‘Leroy’ that features in a number of Tudor musical manuscripts. The most likely explanation is that one of the 15th-century kings of England composed this melody, perhaps Henry IV or Henry V being ‘le roi’ in question. In Taverner’s ‘Leroy Kyrie’, the tune is sung by the sopranos.

from notes by John Milsom © 2013

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