by Tonus Peregrinus · Naxos Deutschland GmbH · CD · EAN 0747313284078
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«The Eton Choirbook» is the album by Tonus Peregrinus, released in 2012 on Naxos, on CD.
The Eton Choirbook, a five-hundred-year-old manuscript kept in the chapel of Eton College, is one of the great treasures of English polyphony before the Reformation. The album brings together works by Lambe, Davy, Browne and Wylkynson, including the St Matthew Passion, the motet «Stabat mater» and the thirteen-voice canon «Jesus autem transiens».
The album, conducted by Antony Pitts, was recorded in 2011 at St Alban the Martyr church in London; it runs 79 minutes and its booklet includes the Latin texts with translation. Catalogue: 8.572840.
For fans of Renaissance polyphony and fifteenth-century English choral music.
