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Track(s) taken from CDA66325

Leroy Kyrie

composer
author of text
Ordinary of the Lady Mass

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
Recording details: September 1988
All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: August 1990
Total duration: 5 minutes 17 seconds

Cover artwork: St Michael. Detail of the centre panel of The Last Judgment Altarpiece (c1447). Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464)
 

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Reviews

‘To sum up, it is one of the joys of being alive in the 1990s to be able to hear this incomparable music so competently and sympathetically—in fact ideally—performed’ (Organists' Review)

‘There are so many special moments that if you are a Taverner fan all I can do is to recommend strongly that you sample this CD’ (CDReview)
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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