Spem in Alium: Music for Monarchs and Magnates. Album by The Sixteen

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Spem in Alium: Music for Monarchs and Magnates. Album by The SixteenAlbum Description Newly recorded in the round and in surround sound, Thomas Tallis' 40 part motet, Spem in alium, one of the great landmarks of polyphony, forms the centre piece of this dazzling CD. Under the theme, Music for Monarchs and Magnates' The Sixteen draws together music by Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons and Thomas Tomkins, some of it never before recorded, some indeed not performed since the time of its writing. It explores the use of music for

The Masque begins

The First Nowell

Lully (arranged de Visée)

He smote all the first-born of Egypt

Padilla is symbolic of an age

Am Sonntag nach Neujahr

Along with settings of the Nunc dimittis and Lord's Prayer is the last work Schütz wrote

Loyset Compère

Ave Regina caelorum a 8

My heart is inditing

noch itzo die Bahn

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