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CDA66639 - Taverner: Missa Mater Christi sanctissima & other sacred music
CDA66639

John Taverner (c1490-1545)

Missa Mater Christi sanctissima & other sacred music

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
Superseded by CDH55053
Label: Helios
Recording details: December 1992
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: October 1993
Total duration: 65 minutes 9 seconds

Cover artwork: The Virgin and the Fountain by Jan van Eyck (c1389-1441)
 

All of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set The Golden Age of English Polyphony: 'English choral music at its finest: 11 hours 25 minutes of Tudor polyphony' (The Observer).

Reviews

‘For the most important English composer of his generation, this series of Masses is long overdue, and we are fortunate that it is being completed with such a high level of success’ (Fanfare, USA)

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