Vigilate!.



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Program notes by Kerry McCarthy in English, French, and German and texts with English, French, and German translations (35 pages : illustration) bound in container. Recorded. 2013 June 11-15. St Giles' Cripplegate, London. Monteverdi Choir ; John Eliot Gardiner, director. Sung in Latin (principally) and English.

Title
Vigilate!.
Artist
Gardiner, John Eliot, conductor.
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Type
Sound Recording
Abstract
An album that brings together six English composers whose combined careers span more than a century: Byrd, Tallis, Morley, Philips, White and Tomkins. The title, meaning 'Be watchful!' epitomizes the clandestine character of recusant music-making in Elizabethan England, by undercover Catholic composers of the time. The pieces display the richly imaginative, devout and diverse responses of musical craftsmen who worked with unfailing creativity in difficult times.
Year
2014
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