Music of the Renaissance: Italy, England & France (2015)
Byrd Ensemble, directed by Markdavin Obenza
SRCD8
Released November 2016
THE BYRD ENSEMBLE
Markdavin Obenza, director
1. ALLEGRI: Miserere mei, Deus
2. TAVERNER: Quemadmodum
3. WHITE: Exaudiat te Dominus
4. TALLIS: Lamentations II
5. BYRD: Domine, quis habitabit
6. BRUMEL: Lamentations
7. PALESTRINA: Magnificat
8. PALESTRINA: Nunc dimittis
TOTAL TIME: 72 minutes
ABOUT THE MUSIC
The music on this disc spans the late-15th century to the early-17th century and represents the Italian, English, and Franco-Flemish schools of polyphony. From the singular phenomenon that is the Allegri Miserere to the gleaming architecture of Palestrina’s double-choir canticles, the works of the Italian school bookend a brief, chronological survey of the 16th-century English psalm motet as well as two sets of Lamentations, one English, the other Franco-Flemish. In the span of 70 minutes, we are vividly reminded of the remarkable diversity of the late-Renaissance polyphonic repertory.