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Track(s) taken from CDA66259

In pace, in idipsum

composer
John Sheppard (c1515-1558)
author of text
Anonymous - liturgical
First Sunday in Lent until Passion Sunday: Respond at Sunday Compline

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: 4 minutes 22 seconds
 

Other recordings available for download

The Cambridge Singers, Sir John Rutter (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)
From 1543 Sheppard was choirmaster at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he wrote an impressive body of mainly Latin church music. This simple, restrained setting of a Compline text would have been intended for Sheppard’s own choir, its top part probably sung by adult altos, the choristers presumably being in bed.

from notes by Collegium Records © 2006

Other albums featuring this work

Lighten our Darkness
The Cambridge Singers, Sir John Rutter (conductor)
COLCD1312CDs Download only
The Sixteen & The Golden Age of English Polyphony
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
CDS44401/1010CDs Boxed set (at a special price) — Download only

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