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Music for Christian classical education

A recording each day, made for leisure.

Periods

Renaissance polyphony

Sacred music for voices from roughly 1450 to 1600, in which several independent melodic lines sound together. The composers include Josquin, Palestrina, Byrd, Tallis and Victoria.

4 recordings

The Annunciation by Albert Bouts

Albert Bouts

The Annunciation, c. 1480

Cleveland Museum of Art

Recordings

4 recordings, by composer

  1. Missa Papae Marcelli: Kyrie

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

    The Tallis Scholars & Peter Phillips

  2. Sicut cervus

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

    Cambridge Singers

  3. If ye love me

    Thomas Tallis.

    The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

  4. Officium defunctorum: Versa est in luctum

    Tomás Luis de Victoria.

    Westminster Cathedral Choir, David Hill