Ensemble Pro Victoria • Tudor Music Afterlives (CD)

Following the freshness and vigour of their quincentenary portrait celebration of Robert Fayrfax, Ensemble Pro Victoria’s second Delphian album brings a similar boldness of approach to a wider-ranging collection, charting some rarely explored territory from a time of great religious, societal and musical change.

Broken fragments of huge pre-Reformation works, preserved only in lute tablature; the first reconstruction and recording of some of the earliest Anglican psalm settings ever written; French chansons and motets once popular in England; improvisatory organ verses within Lady Mass movements by Ludford; and an English-texted version of a much-loved Tallis anthem that shows it in a quite different light: these forgotten ‘afterlives’ of earlier Tudor music help build a much more complete picture of music in sixteenth-century England.

Music by Clemens, Jacotin, Parsons, Lassus, Ludford, Taverner & Tallis.

ENSEMBLE PRO VICTORIA
TOBY WARD director
with
TOBY CARR lute
MAGNUS WILLIAMSON organ

DCD34295 • Released 2022