Conductor(s): Pitts, Antony
Label: Naxos
Series: Early Music Collection
Genre: Choral - Sacred
Period: Renaissance
Catalogue No: 8.572840
Barcode: 747313284078
Release Date: 08/2012

MUSIC FROM THE ETON CHOIRBOOK (Tonus Peregrinus, Pitts)

The Eton Choirbook is a giant 500 year-old manuscript from Eton College Chapel, and one of the greatest surviving glories of pre-Reformation England. This recording features the earliest polyphonic Passion by a named composer, two heartrending motets for five and six voices, two thrilling settings of the Magnificat, and an extraordinary canon in 13 parts, Jesus autem transiens. The ensemble TONUS PEREGRINUS has been widely acclaimed, not least for its “richly sung and very well recorded” programme of Orlando Gibbons, L’Estrange, and Pitts. (The Penguin Guide on 8.557681)

Tracklist

Lambe, Walter
Tonus Peregrinus (Choir)
Pitts, Antony (Conductor)
1 Nesciens mater 06:05
Tonus Peregrinus (Choir)
Pitts, Antony (Conductor)
Monk of Stratford, William
Bible - New Testament - Lyricist
Tonus Peregrinus (Choir)
Pitts, Antony (Conductor)
2 Magnificat 14:44
Tonus Peregrinus (Choir)
Pitts, Antony (Conductor)
Tonus Peregrinus (Choir)
Pitts, Antony (Conductor)
3 Nesciens mater (Sarum chant) 00:47
Tonus Peregrinus (Choir)
Pitts, Antony (Conductor)
Davy, Richard
Bible - New Testament - Lyricist
Tonus Peregrinus (Choir)
Pitts, Antony (Conductor)
4 Passio Domini 21:21
Tonus Peregrinus (Choir)
Pitts, Antony (Conductor)
Browne, John
Tonus Peregrinus (Choir)
Pitts, Antony (Conductor)
5 Stabat Mater 16:14
Tonus Peregrinus (Choir)
Pitts, Antony (Conductor)
Kellyk, Hugh
Bible - New Testament - Lyricist
Tonus Peregrinus (Choir)
Pitts, Antony (Conductor)
6 Magnificat 13:53
Tonus Peregrinus (Choir)
Pitts, Antony (Conductor)
Wilkinson, Robert
Tonus Peregrinus (Choir)
Pitts, Antony (Conductor)
7 Jesus autem transiens - Credo in Deum 05:57
Tonus Peregrinus (Choir)
Pitts, Antony (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 01:19:01