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Track(s) taken from CDA66259

Verbum caro factum est

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Ninth Respond at Matins and Processional Respond at Mass on Christmas Day

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
Recording details: January 1988
All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: October 1988
Total duration: 6 minutes 45 seconds
 

Other recordings available for download

The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (conductor)
Contrapunctus, Owen Rees (conductor)

Reviews

‘A magnificent collection. The Sixteen consistently convey the rapturous beauty of Sheppard's writing, above all in ethereal passages in the highest register. There are not many more beautiful records of Tudor polyphony than this’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)
Sheppard’s Verbum caro is an exultant setting of the famous account of the Incarnation from the beginning of St John’s Gospel, and would have been sung at Matins on Christmas Day. Counteracting the duple metre maintained by the chant, Sheppard sets up triple rhythms in the free voices to achieve ‘natural’ declamation of such phrases as ‘cuius gloriam’, ‘quasi unigeniti’, and ‘plenum gratiae’. Sheppard was a colleague of Tallis’s in Queen Mary’s Chapel Royal, and had previously served as Informator choristarum at Magdalen College, Oxford.

from notes by Owen Rees © 2016

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