UPDATE 26 Feb:
Today, as I get ready for a clerical supper, I’ve been listening to this. It’s great on the big speakers, in the car, in my ear buds. Wow.
Originally Published on: Feb 14
The London Oratory Schola Cantorum Boys Choir has a new sacred music disc and it is wonderful: Sacred music from the Tudor era. It is the beginning of a series. I want every one of them.
Run, don’t walk, to get this new disc or download. Nay, rather, just click!
The line up:
1. Haec dies, John Sheppard
2. Gloria (Missa Euge bone), Christopher Tye
3. Credo (Missa Euge bone), Christopher Tye
4. Sanctus (Missa Euge bone), Christopher Tye
5. Benedictus (Missa Euge bone), Christopher Tye
6. Agnus Dei (Missa Euge bone), Christopher Tye
7. Salvator mundi I, Thomas Tallis
8. O nata lux, Thomas Tallis
9. Ave Maria, Robert Parsons
10. Ave verum corpus, William Byrd
11. Haec dies, William Byrd
12. Civitas sancti tui, William Byrd
13. Ave verum corpus, Peter Philips
14. Ascendit Deus, Peter Philips
Via a tweet from Damian Thompson I learned of this super-über-hyper-ultra cool video about the London Oratory filmed with drones.