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Track(s) taken from CDGIM009

Pange lingua … Corporis

composer
Anonymous - Medieval
author of text
Anonymous - liturgical
Processional for the Feast of Corpus Christi

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: February 1986
Total duration: 3 minutes 36 seconds

Cover artwork: The Deposition. Gérard David (active 1484-1523)
Reproduced by permission of The Trustees, The National Gallery, London
 

Other recordings available for download

Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill (conductor)
Leigh Nixon (tenor)

Reviews

‘The Tallis Scholars' stunning disc of Masses by Josquin Desprez, a disc that elevated Early Music to the "mainstream"’ (Gramophone)

‘I think it goes without saying that you can't not plump for The Tallis Scholars—they've dedicated thirty-four years to researching and crafting their performances of Josquin's work. Peter Phillips absolutely lives the music and with The Tallis Scholars you get a clarity of texture, exquisite phrasing, and a luminosity of tone that is second to none’ (BBC Record Review)
The eucharistic text of Pange lingua gloriosi Corporis mysterium was written in 1263 by the Italian scholar-priest St Thomas Aquinas at the request of the Pope to fit the melody of Pange lingua gloriosi proelium certaminis, Venantius Fortunatus’s famous sixth-century hymn in honour of the Cross. The melody was used by Holst in The Hymn of Jesus and by Charles Wood (to its original text) in his St Mark Passion.

from notes by Collegium Records © 2000

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The Spirits of England & France, Vol. 5
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