Mass for 5 Voices

Album by William Byrd & The Sixteen & Harry Christophers

Mass for Five Voices is a choral Mass by English Renaissance composer William Byrd, first published in 1605. Written for five-part a cappella choir, it employs dense imitative polyphony and modal harmonic language and is part of Byrd's mature sacred output, representing a rare instance of published Catholic liturgical music from Elizabethan England.

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  1. 1.
    Motet "Diliges Dominum"
    3:21
  2. 2.
    Motet "Ad Dominum cum tribularer"
    10:52
  3. 3.
    Introitus "Guadeamus omnes"
    5:14
  4. 4.
    Mass for 5 Voices: I. Kyrie eleison
    1:44
  5. 5.
    Mass for 5 Voices: II. Gloria in excelsis
    5:33
  6. 6.
    Graduale "Timete Dominum"
    4:42
  7. 7.
    Mass for 5 Voices: III. Credo in unum Deum
    10:02
  8. 8.
    Offertorium "Iustorum animae"
    2:45
  9. 9.
    Mass for 5 Voices: IV. Sanctus
    2:33
  10. 10.
    Mass for 5 Voices: V. Benedictus
    1:32
  11. 11.
    Mass for 5 Voices: VI. Agnus Dei
    3:37
  12. 12.
    Communio "Beati mundo corde"
    3:32

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