Artist: 
Cinquecento

Tye: The Peterhouse Mass & Other Works

1 CD
€18,99

Release date: 27 March 2026

Christopher Tye is less famous than his Tudor contemporary Thomas Tallis and his documented life more chaotic, but the calibre of his Masses and polyphony are unsurpassed for colour, full-textured fabric and interwoven melodic lines. The music may be English but the five members of Cinquecento (literally ‘16th century’ in Italian) are pan-European, each bringing a lifetime of early music experience to forgotten masterpieces. This is their 17th album for Hyperion.

 

Tye successfully negotiated the perilous politics of an era when successive monarchs, from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, pulled England back and forth between Catholicism and Protestantism, and demanded that church music bend accordingly. The Peterhouse Mass recorded here survives in partbooks found in the Cambridge college of the same name; the missing tenor part has been reconstructed by Paul Doe.

 

Tracklisting:

 

Christopher Tye (1505 - 1572)

  1. Amavit eum Dominus 
  2. The Peterhouse Mass - 1: Gloria 
  3. The Peterhouse Mass - 2: Credo 
  4. The Peterhouse Mass - 3: Sanctus 
  5. The Peterhouse Mass - 4: Benedictus 
  6. The Peterhouse Mass - 5: Agnus Dei 
  7. Alleluia. Per te Dei genitrix 
  8. Sub tuam protectionem 
  9. Cantate Domino 
  10. Kyrie ‘Orbis factor’ 
  11. In pace 
  12. Miserere mei, Deus - 1: Miserere mei, Deus 
  13. Miserere mei, Deus - 2: Laqueum paraverunt
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Format Album
Release Date 2026