ALAMIRE, directed by David Skinner
Sopranos: Grace Davidson & Julia Doyle
Contraltos: Ruth Massey & Clare Wilkinson
Tenors: Mark Dobell, Nicholas Todd,
Nicholas Mulroy & Christopher Watson
Baritones: Gregory Skidmore & Timothy Whiteley
Basses: William Gaunt & Robert Macdonald
CD 1
1. Salvator mundi [i] (Tallis)
2. Absterge Domine (Tallis)
3. In manus tuas (Tallis)
4. Emendemus in melius (Byrd)
5. Libera me Domine et pone (Byrd)
6. Peccantem me quotidie (Byrd)
7. Mihi autem nimis (Tallis)
8. O nata lux (Tallis)
9. O sacrum convivium (Tallis)
10. Aspice Domine quia facta est (Byrd)
11. Attolite portas (Byrd)
12. O lux beata Trinitas (Byrd)
13. Derelinquat impius (Tallis)
14. Dum transisset sabbatum (Tallis)
15. [Honor] virtus et potestas (Tallis)
16. [Sermone blando...] Illae dum
pergunt concite (Tallis)
17. Laudate pueri Dominum (Byrd)
18. Memento homo (Byrd)
19. Siderum rector (Byrd)
20. Te lucis ante terminum
[festal setting] (Tallis)
CD 2
1. Te lucis ante terminum
[ferial setting] (Tallis)
2. Salvator mundi [ii] (Tallis)
3. [Candidi] facti sunt (Tallis)
4. Da mihi auxilium (Byrd)
5. Domine secundum actum
meum (Byrd)
6. Diliges Dominum (Byrd)
7. In ieiunio et fletu (Tallis)
8. Suscipe quaeso Domine/
Si enim iniquitates (Tallis)
9. Miserere mihi Domine (Byrd)
10. Tribue Domine/Te deprecor/
Gloria patri qui creavit (Byrd)
11. Libera me Domine de morte (Byrd)
12. Miserere nostri Domine (Tallis)
AVTORES CANTIONVM AD LECTOREM
Has tibi primitias sic commendamus, amice
Lector, vt infantem depositura suum
Nutricis fidei vix firma puerpera credit,
Queis pro lacte tuae gratia frontis erit.
Hac etenim fretae, magnam promittere messem.
Audebunt, cassae, falcis honore cadent.
THE AUTHORS OF THE SONGS TO THE READER
Like the woman still weak from childbirth who entrusts
Her infant to the care of the faithful wetnurse, we thus commend
These firstborn [songs] to you, friendly reader,
For your esteem will be their milk.
Supported by this they will dare to promise a great harvest;
If unfruitful, they will fall by an honourable sickle.