Mass for Five Voices

Album by William Byrd & The Gesualdo Six & Owain Park

Mass for Five Voices is a liturgical Mass setting by English composer William Byrd, composed around 1592. Scored for five-part vocal polyphony and typically sung a cappella, it employs dense imitative counterpoint, modal harmonic language and careful voice-leading, and it occupies an important place in Byrd's oeuvre and in the development of English Renaissance sacred music amid the recusant Catholic context of Elizabethan England.

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  1. 1.
    Ave verum corpus
    4:28
  2. 2.
    Afflicti pro peccatis nostris: Afflicti pro peccatis nostris
    3:27
  3. 3.
    Afflicti pro peccatis nostris: Ut eruas nos a malis
    1:41
  4. 4.
    Mass for Five Voices: Kyrie
    1:26
  5. 5.
    Mass for Five Voices: Gloria: Gloria in excelsis Deo
    1:55
  6. 6.
    Mass for Five Voices: Gloria: Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
    3:08
  7. 7.
    Tristitia et anxietas: Tristitia et anxietas
    6:23
  8. 8.
    Tristitia et anxietas: Sed tu Domine
    3:58
  9. 9.
    Mass for Five Voices: Credo: Credo in unum Deum
    2:22
  10. 10.
    Mass for Five Voices: Credo: Qui propter nos homines
    3:20
  11. 11.
    Mass for Five Voices: Credo: Et in Spiritum Sanctum
    3:33
  12. 12.
    Ave Maria: Ave Maria, gratia plena
    1:08
  13. 13.
    Ave Maria: Alleluia
    0:47
  14. 14.
    Mass for Five Voices: Sanctus: Sanctus
    1:09
  15. 15.
    Mass for Five Voices: Sanctus: Pleni sunt caeli
    1:02
  16. 16.
    Mass for Five Voices: Benedictus
    1:29
  17. 17.
    Circumdederunt me
    4:55
  18. 18.
    Mass for Five Voices: Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei I & II
    1:44
  19. 19.
    Mass for Five Voices: Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei III
    1:31
  20. 20.
    Emendemus in melius: Emendemus in melius
    2:19
  21. 21.
    Emendemus in melius: Adiuva nos Deus
    1:45
  22. 22.
    De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae, “Lamentations”: De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae
    2:03
  23. 23.
    De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae, “Lamentations”: Heth
    0:48
  24. 24.
    De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae, “Lamentations”: Cogitavit Dominus
    1:41
  25. 25.
    De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae, “Lamentations”: Teth
    1:12
  26. 26.
    De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae, “Lamentations”: Defixae sunt in terra portae eius
    1:36
  27. 27.
    De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae, “Lamentations”: Jod
    0:51
  28. 28.
    De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae, “Lamentations”: Sederunt in terra
    1:58
  29. 29.
    De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae, “Lamentations”: Jerusalem, Jerusalem
    2:34

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