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From Wigmore Hall, early music vocal ensemble Cinquecento perform a programme called Songs for Troubled Times: Music from Reformation England.

From Wigmore Hall, the early music vocal ensemble Cinquecento performs a programme called 'Songs for Troubled Times: Music from Reformation England'. The Reformation caused a rupture in liturgical music, with composers having to change style according to whether the monarch was Catholic or Protestant.

From London's Wigmore Hall
Presented by Hannah French

Thomas Tallis: Salvator mundi (i)
Christopher Tye: The Mean Mass - Gloria
Thomas Tallis: In jejunio et fletu
Thomas Tallis: Te lucis ante terminum (i)
Thomas Tallis: Lamentations I
Thomas Tallis: If ye love me
Christopher Tye: The Mean Mass - Sanctus
John Sheppard: The Lord's Prayer
Thomas Tallis: Te lucis ante terminum (ii)
Christopher Tye: The Mean Mass - Agnus Dei
William Byrd: Ne irascaris, Domine

Cinquecento

57 minutes

Music Played

  • Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Ensemble: Cinquecento.
  • Christopher Tye

    The Mean Mass - Sanctus

    Ensemble: Cinquecento.
  • John Sheppard

    The Lord's Prayer

    Ensemble: Cinquecento.
  • Christopher Tye

    The Mean Mass - Agnus Dei

    Ensemble: Cinquecento.
  • William Byrd

    Ne irascaris, Domine

    Ensemble: Cinquecento.
  • Robert Parsons

    Ave Maria

    Ensemble: Cinquecento.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 7 Nov 2022 13:00
  • Sun 13 Nov 2022 13:00