Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks

Jackson, Simon, The Choir of Peterhouse, Cambridge

8.574700

With their dramatic history, the Peterhouse Partbooks are among the most significant collections of English sacred music manuscripts from the 16th and early 17th centuries. Including several world premiere recordings, this programme presents a survey of the rich variety in the Peterhouse manuscripts, from the Venetian splendour of Croce’s eight-part anthem Omnes gentes plaudite, to the penitential intimacy of Tallis’s O God be merciful unto us.

Works:

•Croce, G: Omnes gentes plaudite
• Byrd: Prevent Us, O Lord, T 207
• Wilson, T: Prevent Us, O Lord
• Amner: Lift up your heads, O ye gates
• Tallis: O God, Be Merciful unto Us
• Tomkins: Clarifica Me Pater
• Farrant, R: Call to Remembrance
• Byrd: Behold, I bring you glad tidings
• Tomkins: Jesus Came When The Doors Were Shut
• Tallis: Verily, verily I say unto you
• Batten: Deliver us, O Lord our God
• Wilson, T: Behold, How Good and Joyful a Thing It Is
• Gibbons, O: Te Deum
• Tomkins: Ut, Re, MI, Fa, Sol, La "For a Beginner"
• Wilson, T: Behold, Now Praise the Lord
• Smith, W: Preces & Responses
• Smith, W: Lord, Thou Art Become Gracious unto Thy Land
• Stone, R: The Lord's Prayer
• Wilson, T: Evening Service in C Major

CD x 1

Naxos

1.09.2025

747313470075