Vigilate!
English polyphony in dangerous times

This album, subtitled 'English polyphony in dangerous times', brings together six English composers whose combined careers span more than a century—Byrd, Tallis, Morley, Philips, White and Tomkins, undercover Catholic composers revelling in clandestine recusant music-making in Elizabethan England.

SDG720  77 minutes 30 seconds
'The major interest of these impressive performances is that they reflect the interpretative approaches developed by John Eliot Gardiner over decades of experience in many types of music … he bri ...
'This set of performances offers a different perspective on this music compared to what one would experience from hearing a smaller consort sing it. I welcome both approaches and I find Gardiner and h ...