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Times go by Turns

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Catalogue numberBIS-2037 SACD
Release date2013-07-10
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000Hz
Total time77:58

”Another fine album from New York Polyphony, cradled in BIS’s marvelous surround acoustics.” Audaud.com 09/2013

“Recommended with the assurance that you will listen to this disc often.” Classicstoday.com

Taking its title from a poem by the sixteenth-century Jesuit martyr Robert Southwell, Times go by Turns comprises three masses composed during a period when the conditions for English Catholics – and Catholic composers – underwent radical change. Active at a time – the 15th century – when the Catholic Church flourished in England, John Plummer’s death roughly coincided with the ascension of the Tudors, a dynasty that would irreversibly alter religious traditions.


As a consequence, the bulk of Plummer’s music was destroyed during the Reformation, the remainder surviving almost exclusively in sources from the continent. Born a century later than Plummer, Tallis witnessed the separation of England from the Catholic Church and his Mass for Four Voices displays a simple lyricism and economic use of polyphony which may well have been driven by liturgical necessity.

Such constraints had grown even stronger by the end of the century, when his student and colleague William Byrd composed his own four-part Mass, intended for clandestine worship at a time when dissidents were dealt with by cruel means.

The vocal quartet New York Polyphony released endBeginning (BIS-1949) in 2012, a disc which focused on Franco-Flemish polyphony. Meeting with international acclaim, the ensemble’s first collaboration with BIS received top marks on website ClassicsToday.com and in the French magazine Diapason, as well as being included on the Best-of-2012 lists in The New Yorker and Time Out New York. While dedicated to the works of the great age of polyphony, New York Polyphony is also noted for its performances of contemporary music. For this disc the ensemble has commissioned two modern works, with Andrew Smith contributing a Kyrie – the movement which Tallis’ mass leaves out – and Gabriel Jackson providing the closing Ite missa est (‘The mass is ended’). The programme also includes one of the last compositions by Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012). A Colloquy with God, the setting of a poem by Sir Thomas Browne for four male voices, was dedicated to New York Polyphony.
 
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  Composer: Byrd, William
  Mass for Four Voices 41:07
01 Kyrie eleison 01:52 $ 0.45 USD
02 Gloria in excelsis Deo 05:37 $ 1.35 USD
03 Credo in unum Deum 07:38 $ 1.83 USD
04 Sanctus – Benedictus 03:31 $ 0.84 USD
05 Agnus Dei 03:00 $ 0.72 USD
 
 
  Composer: Bennett, Richard Rodney
06 A Colloquy with God 03:32 $ 0.85 USD
 
 
  Composer: Plummer, John
  Missa sine nomine 25:48
07 Kyrie omnipotens Pater 04:58 $ 1.19 USD
08 Gloria in excelsis Deo 04:51 $ 1.16 USD
09 Credo in unum Deum 05:17 $ 1.27 USD
10 Sanctus – Benedictus 05:39 $ 1.36 USD
11 Agnus Dei 05:03 $ 1.21 USD
 
 
  Composer: Smith, Andrew
  Kyrie: Cunctipotens genitor Deus
12 Kyrie: Cunctipotens Genitor Deus 03:42 $ 0.89 USD
 
 
  Composer: Tallis, Thomas
  Mass for Four Voices 41:07
13 Gloria in excelsis Deo 04:54 $ 1.18 USD
14 Credo in unum Deum 05:40 $ 1.36 USD
15 Sanctus – Benedictus 05:21 $ 1.28 USD
16 Agnus Dei 03:34 $ 0.86 USD
 
 
  Composer: Jackson, Gabriel
17 Ite missa est 02:32 $ 0.61 USD
 
  Album total 77:58
ComposerBennett, Richard Rodney
Byrd, William
Jackson, Gabriel
Plummer, John
Smith, Andrew
Tallis, Thomas
VocalsNew York Polyphony

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