Renaissance & Baroque Music

Music of the Old Hall Manuscript: Works of Bittering, Cooke, Damett, Forest, Mayshuet, Oliver, Pennard, Power, Pycard, Queldryk Power: Missa “Alma redemptoris mater”;Ave Maria; Gloria; Beata viscera; Credo; Sanctus; Agnus Dei; Salve Regina; Ibi michi ad montem; Quam pulchra es Dufay: Missa “L’homme arme”; 5 Motetten Isaac: Missa Paschale; Commune Festorum Beatae Mariae Virginis; Quis dabit pacem populo timenti; Es het ein Baur ein Töchterlein; Es wolt ein Meydlein grasen gan; Greiner, zancker, schnöpffitzer; J’ay pris amours; Fammi una gratia, amore; La Mora; Ne piu bella di queste Schütz: Matthäus-Passion SWV 479 Bach: Motetten BWV 225-230 Monte: Missa “La dolce vista”; O suavitas et dulcedo; Parce mihi, Domine; Dolce mio caro; Comme la tourterelle; La Deesse Venus

The blend between the voices is finely controlled, the tone mellow and the tuning spectacularly accurate, giving rise to an organ-like sonority that is genuinely thrilling,” wrote Gramophone magazine, praising the Hilliard Ensemble’s four singers, who excelled in an extraordinary variety of music over a 40-year career. This seven-CD collection extends from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, offering music by composers from England, France, Flanders and Germany.