Christopher Tye is less well known than his Tudor contemporary Thomas Tallis, and his documented life was more chaotic, but the level of his masses and polyphony is unsurpassed in terms of color, full-sounding texture and interwoven melodic lines. The music may be English, but the five members of Cinquecento (literally "16th century" in Italian) are pan-European, each bringing a lifetime of early music experience to forgotten masterpieces. This is their 17th album for Hyperion. Tye successfully navigated the perilous politics of an era when successive monarchs, from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, tugged England back and forth between Catholicism and Protestantism and demanded that church music adapt accordingly. The Peterhouse Mass recorded here is preserved in partbooks found in the college of the same name in Cambridge; the missing tenor part was reconstructed by Paul Doe.
57 Akadimias Street, Athens
Zip. 106 79
T. +30 210 3626137 - int.1
E. [email protected]
Login
Ελληνικά
English