Byrd: Mass for Five Voices

Album by William Byrd

Mass for Five Voices is a choral Mass by English composer William Byrd, composed around 1592. Written for five vocal parts in dense Renaissance polyphony with imitative counterpoint and modal harmonies, it reflects the covert practice of Catholic liturgy in Elizabethan England and occupies an important place in Byrd's late sacred output and in the development of English Renaissance sacred music.
First released: 1996

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Ego sum panis vivus - William Byrd
    2:33
  2. 2.
    Mass for five voices: Introit - Cibavit eos
    3:56
  3. 3.
    Mass for five voices: Introit - Kyrie
    1:35
  4. 4.
    Mass for five voices: Introit - Gloria
    4:46
  5. 5.
    Mass for five voices: Gradual - Oculi omnium
    4:51
  6. 6.
    Mass for five voices: Sequence - Laudi Sion salvatorem
    6:21
  7. 7.
    Mass for five voices: Sequence - Credo
    9:08
  8. 8.
    Mass for five voices: Offertory - Sacerdotes Domini
    1:34
  9. 9.
    Mass for five voices: Offertory - Sanctus
    2:10
  10. 10.
    Mass for five voices: Offertory - Benedictus
    1:34
  11. 11.
    Mass for five voices: Offertory - Agnus Dei
    4:34
  12. 12.
    Mass for five voices: Communion - Quotiescunque manducabitis
    3:30
  13. 13.
    Mass for five voices: Processional - Pange lingua gloriosi
    3:32
  14. 14.
    Ab ortu solis - William Byrd
    6:16
  15. 15.
    Alleluia. Cognoverunt discipuli - William Byrd
    4:14
  16. 16.
    O Sacrum convivium - William Byrd
    3:56
  17. 17.
    O Salutaris hostia - William Byrd
    3:41
  18. 18.
    Ave verum corpus - William Byrd
    4:34

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