Tallis, Sheppard - Sacred Music including Spem in alium / The Clerkes of Oxenford, David Wulstan / EMI Audio CD 2003

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Spem in alium (Latin for "Hope in any other") is a 40-part Renaissance motet by Thomas Tallis, composed in c. 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each. It is considered by some critics to be the greatest piece of English early music. H. B. Collins described it in 1929 as Tallis's "crowning achievement", along with his Lamentations.

Tracklist:

Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)

1.  Spem in alium   10:12

2.  O nata lux de lumine   1:40

3.  Ecce tempus idoneum I   3:37

4.  Loquebantur variis linguis   3:47

5.  Gaude gloriosa Dei mater    15:57

John Sheppard (1515-1558)

6.  Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria   11:17

7.  Laudem dicite Deo   7:49

8.  In pace, in idipsum   4:03

9.  In manus tuas I   3:09

10. Verbum caro factum est   6:42