Temple Winter Festival 2014 - Gallicantus

Presented by Temple Church and Hazard Chase in Association with BBC Radio 3

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'Beyond the ordinary scheme of things' Monumental music for Christmas

This program extracts highlights from two of the most complex, florid and grand masses of the sixteenth century, both of which were composed upon a Christmas theme – The ‘Missa Puer natus est nobis’ of Thomas Tallis, which was perhaps written for a grand celebration of the visit of Phillip II of Spain to England in the 1550s, and the ‘Missa Praeter rerum seriem’, Cipriano de Rore’s masterful parody of Josquin’s great Christmas motet of the same name.

Verdelot: Beata es Virgo
Josquin des Prez: Praeter rerum seriem
De Rore: Kyrie: Missa Praeter rerum seriem
Anon: Puer natus est nobis
Tallis: Gloria: Missa Puer natus est nobis
De Rore: Credo: Missa praetor rerum seriem
Tallis: Sanctus and Benedictus: Missa Puer natus est nobis
De Rore: Agnus I: Missa Praeter rerum seriem
Tallis: Agnus II: Missa Puer natus est nobis