Utwory na płycie:

• Civitas sancti tui
• In jejunio et fletu
• Salvator mundi
• Inter vestibulum
• Infelix ego
• Libera nos
• Super flumina Babylonis
• Quomodo cantabimus
• Sitivit anima mea
• Laboravi in gemitu meo
• Miserere mei Deus
• Lachrimans sitivit anima mea
• Plorans plorabit

William Byrd:
Civitas sancti tui

Thomas Tallis:
Libera nos

Philippe de Monte:
Super flumina Babylonis

William Byrd:
Quomodo cantabimus

Manuel Cardoso:
Sitivit anima mea

Martin Peerson:
Laboravi in gemitu meo

William Byrd:
Miserere mei Deus

Pedro de Cristo:
Lachrimans sitivit anima mea

William Byrd:
Plorans plorabit

Thomas Tallis:
In jejunio et fletu

Thomas Tallis:
Salvator mundi

Pedro de Cristo:
Inter vestibulum

William Byrd:
Infelix ego

Coupling powerful interpretations with path-breaking scholarship, the choir Contrapunctus presents music by the best-known composers as well as unfamiliar masterpieces. Directed by Owen Rees, a specialist in music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the group presents imaginative programmes revealing previously undiscovered musical treasures and throwing new light on familiar works.

This recording explores the musical ‘cries of the oppressed’ from opposite ends of Europe, which include some of the most powerful works composed in England and Portugal during this period by Byrd, Tallis, Monte and Cardoso. The highlight perhaps is the first recording of a newly reconstructed vocal work by Thomas Tallis, Libera nos. This has long been thought to be an instrumental work, and has been recorded as such, but there’s persuasive historical evidence for us to be confident that this is in fact a choral setting of the antiphon Libera nos, and it is performed here with the relevant text restored to the five vocal parts