Motets

Album by William Byrd & Cambridge Choir of King’s College & Stephen Cleobury

Motets is a collection of sacred vocal works by English composer William Byrd, composed and published in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. These polyphonic choral pieces are characterised by imitative counterpoint, modal harmonies and expressive text setting, and they occupy a central place in Byrd's sacred output and in the development of English Renaissance liturgical music.

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  1. 1.
    Rorate cœli
    4:15
  2. 2.
    Vigilate
    4:36
  3. 3.
    Hodie beata Virgo Maria
    2:34
  4. 4.
    Alleluia. Senex puerum portabat
    1:38
  5. 5.
    Ne irascaris, Domine
    3:35
  6. 6.
    Civitas sancti tui
    3:58
  7. 7.
    Terra tremuit
    0:53
  8. 8.
    Hæc dies
    2:33
  9. 9.
    Tollite portas
    1:55
  10. 10.
    Alleluia. Ascendit Deus. Dominus in Sina
    2:23
  11. 11.
    Fantus est repente
    1:45
  12. 12.
    Non vos relinquam orphanos
    1:34
  13. 13.
    O lux beata Trinitas
    4:32
  14. 14.
    Laudibus in sanctis
    5:36
  15. 15.
    Ave verum corpus
    3:42
  16. 16.
    Sacerdotes Domini
    1:12
  17. 17.
    Iustorum animæ
    2:44
  18. 18.
    O quam gloriosum
    5:00
  19. 19.
    Ave Maria
    1:37

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