TYE Missa Euge bone. Western Wynde Mass
Westminster Abbey Choir in Catholic and Anglican Tye
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Composer or Director: Christopher Tye
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Hyperion
Magazine Review Date: 08/2012
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 73
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: CDA67928
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Quaesumus omnipotens |
Christopher Tye, Composer
Christopher Tye, Composer James O'Donnell, Conductor Westminster Abbey Choir |
Mass, 'Euge Bone' |
Christopher Tye, Composer
Christopher Tye, Composer James O'Donnell, Conductor Westminster Abbey Choir |
Give alms of thy goods |
Christopher Tye, Composer
Christopher Tye, Composer James O'Donnell, Conductor Westminster Abbey Choir |
Christ rising again |
Christopher Tye, Composer
Christopher Tye, Composer James O'Donnell, Conductor Westminster Abbey Choir |
Peccavimus cum patribus |
Christopher Tye, Composer
Christopher Tye, Composer James O'Donnell, Conductor Westminster Abbey Choir |
Mass, 'Western Wind' |
Christopher Tye, Composer
Christopher Tye, Composer James O'Donnell, Conductor Westminster Abbey Choir |
Nunc dimittis |
Christopher Tye, Composer
Christopher Tye, Composer James O'Donnell, Conductor Westminster Abbey Choir |
Author: Richard Lawrence
This disc offers a good sample of Tye’s music for both denominations. As was customary, the two Masses omit the Kyrie; but there are links between the first item, Quaesumus omnipotens, and the Missa Euge bone: for instance, ‘militamus miseri’ and ‘ut vitiorum voragine devitate’ in the motet find an echo at ‘Jesu Christe’ in the Gloria. The Mass, which may have been Tye’s doctoral submission, is so full of clever contrapuntal devices, including a double canon at the fifth in the Agnus Dei, that it’s a relief to find him committing the solecism of consecutive fifths. The Western Wynde Mass, based on the secular song also used by Taverner and Sheppard, includes some old-fashioned melismas in the two-part writing of the Benedictus.
These are good, sturdy performances. If I have a criticism it is that there’s a doggedness about the boy trebles that becomes wearying. Where the men sing alone, as at ‘Respice in nos’ in Peccavimus cum patribus nostris, the phrasing is much more shapely. But the simple, syllabic setting of Give almes of thy goods and the smoothly flowing Nunc dimittis are beautifully done.
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