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8.00 The Tudor Consort: Invocations

The Tudor Consort presents a programme of choral music responding to a time of crisis and the pandemics of plague that swept through Europe throughout the 15th and 16th centuries. Settings of the hymn Stella Caeli, an invocation to the Virgin Mary to destroy plague, are complemented with settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Thomas Tallis and Robert White. Also featuring music by William Byrd, Francisco Guerrero and Ildebrando Pizzetti.

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Programme:

GREGORIAN CHANT: Stella caeli;

LAMBE: Stella caeli;

COOK: Stella caeli;

THORNE: Stella caeli;

TALLIS: Lamentations of Jeremiah;

GUERRERO: Beatus es;

DUFAY: O Sancte Sebastiane;

WHITE: Lamentations of Jeremiah;

PIZZETTI: De Profundis

The Tudor Consort directed by Michael Stewart

Recorded on 29 August 2020 in Wellington Cathedral of St. Paul