Naxos
2006
Various Composers
Tudor Organ Music
About This Album
This repertoire, in two or three contrapuntal lines, is mainly arrangements of small vocal works such as hymns and antiphons characterized by motivic integration, rhythmic displacements, and short passages of imitation. The timing for most of these works is between one to two minutes. The musical interest is in the subtle turn of melodic line and/or metric sophistication.

In addition to three anonymous works, the composers represented are John Redford, who was affiliated with St. Paul's Cathedral and later became Almoner and Master of the Choristers; Thomas Tallis, who worked his way through a variety of church positions to become a member of the Chapel Royal in 1543, serving under Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary Tudor, and Elizabeth I; John Blitheman, who was also affiliated with the Chapel Royal; Thomas Preston, who is thought to have been organist at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later at Trinity College, Cambridge; and Thomas Tomkins, who became organist at the Chapel Royal in 1621.

Thomas Mulliner, who flourished in the 1560s in London, compiled what has come to be called the Mulliner Book in an effort to collect the best examples of this repertoire. Two instruments were used on this recording.
Track List

John Redford Exultet Cellum Laudibus, With A Meane (from The Mulliner Book)
1.
Sermone Blando Angelus (from The Mulliner Book)
2.
John Blitheman Eterne Rerum For Keyboard From The Mulliner Book, No 51
3.
Christe Qui Lux, For Keyboard (from The Mulliner Book)
4.
John Redford Angulare Fundamentum, For Keyboard (from The Mulliner Book)
5.
Te Lucis Ante Terminum, For Keyboard (from The Mulliner Book)
6.
John Blitheman Settings (6) Of Gloria Tibi Trinitas, For Keyboard (from The Mulliner Book)
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Anonymous La Mi La Sol La Mi Gia Vol À 4
13.
Thomas Tallis Clarifica Me Pater (I), For Keyboard
14.
Gloria Tibi Trinitas, For Organ
15.
Clarifica Me Pater (II), For Keyboard
16.
Iste Confessor, For Keyboard
17.
Clarifica Me Pater (III), For Keyboard
18.
Thomas Tomkins Miserere, For Organ
19.
Clarifica Me Pater, For Keyboard
20.
In Nomine, For Organ
21.
Anonymous Felix Namque, For Organ
22.
A Solis Ortus, For Keyboard (from The Mulliner Book)
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John Redford Primo Dierum Omnium, For Keyboard (from The Mulliner Book)
27.
Settings (3) Of Lucem Tuam, For Keyboard (from The Mulliner Book)
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