, St Simon and St Jude
Mihi autem nimis
Thomas Tallis
Recording
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
- Album
- Thomas Tallis - Lamentations of Jeremiah
- Year
- 1992
- Length
- Period
- Renaissance polyphony
- Listen
Painting
Master of Saint Francis
Saints Bartholomew and Simon, ca. 1272
The piece
Tallis set for five voices the Introit antiphon for feasts of apostles, from Psalm 139: "Thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honorable." It was printed in the Cantiones sacrae that he and William Byrd published together in 1575.
The recording
The Tallis Scholars under Peter Phillips recorded it for Gimell's Tallis disc Lamentations of Jeremiah, released in 1992, beside the two sets of Lamentations and Salve intemerata virgo.
Other recordings
Chapelle du Roi under Alistair Dixon recorded it in 2000 for the seventh volume of their complete Tallis series (Signum), and The Cardinall's Musick under Andrew Carwood on Tallis: Gaude gloriosa (Hyperion, 2005).