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This new recording offers a fresh insight into the lives and works of two expatriate English Catholic composers exiled to Flanders at the time of the Reformation. Peter Philips and Richard Dering both travelled widely in Europe and their music displays a variety of religious and musical influences picked up along the way. The texts speak with a directness and intensity, deeply affected by this period of religious and artistic turbulence. As a celebrated choral composer in his own right, Matthew demonstrates a masterful grasp of these works, many of which receive their first recording here. The unique combination of instruments from the period instrument ensemble In Echo also serve to add intensity and colour to this most sophisticated music of the Late Renaissance.

PROGRAMME

01. Ecce vicit Leo a 8 3:12

02. Loquebantur variis linguis a 5 2:57

03. Jesu dulcedo cordium a 5 5:49

04. Pavan and Galliard Dolorosa 5:29

05. Factum est silentium a 6 2:57

06. Ave Jesu Christe a 8 3:50

07. Virgo prudentissima a 6 2:46

08. Ut re mi fa sol la 2:50

09. Jubilate Deo a 8 2:49

10. O bone Jesu a 5 6:1

11. Gaudens gaudebo a 8 2:37

12. Fantasia a 5 4:04

13. Christus resurgens a 5 3:20

14. Salve Regina a 5 5:55

15. Paduan a 4 4:09

16. Quem vidistis pastores a 6 2:06