Tears & Lamentations
Label: Regis Records
Format: CD
Categories: Vocal Music
Budget Periods: Medieval, Renaissance
Composers: Anon, Gilbert Banastir, John Browne, Richard Davy, Richard Pygott, Robert Whyte, Sheryngham, William Cornyshe
Directors: Edgar Fleet, Mark Brown
Performers: Pro Cantione Antiqua
Available: 6
Price: $8.99
Robert Whyte (1538-1574)
Lamentations Jeremiae Prophetae Cum Sex Vocibus
Libera Me Domine - motet
Conducted by Edgar Fleet
Music from Fayrfax Manuscript (*from Henry VIII's Manuscript)
Conducted by Mark Brown
John Browne (1426-1498)
Jhesu Mercy
Richard Pygott (fl.c.1520)
Quid petis, o fili? *
Richard Davy (1465-1507)
A Blessid Jhesu
Sheryngham (fl.c.1500)
A Gentill Jhesu
Anon (C15)
A My Dere Sonne
Alone, Alone, Alone
Gilbert Banastir (1445-1487)
My Fearful Dreme
William Cornyshe (1468-1523)
Woefully Arrayed
Pro Cantione Antiqua
Mark Brown, conductor
Edgar Fleet, conductor
Penguin Guide on Robert Whyte:
"neglected master of Elizabethan polyphony...style has basic restraint and often shows gentle, Dowland-like melancholy"
P. Bamber on Whyte's Lamentations:
"orthodox Roman liturgy was not favoured by the ecclesiastical authorities, and Whyte, as Master of the Choristers successively at Ely, Chester and Westminister Abbey, would certainly have been aware of this."

