The Pillars of Eternity is an extremely well-chosen title for this disc, the third volume by the Sixteen in a series of five devoted to the Eton Choirbook, a manuscript volume that remains the primary key to late-fifteenth century Latin church music in England. The composers represented here include several of the top-ranking figures of the English middle Renaissance, a period in which the influence of English music ranged well outside the borders of British Isles. The surviving output of these composers is pitifully small, ...
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The Pillars of Eternity is an extremely well-chosen title for this disc, the third volume by the Sixteen in a series of five devoted to the Eton Choirbook, a manuscript volume that remains the primary key to late-fifteenth century Latin church music in England. The composers represented here include several of the top-ranking figures of the English middle Renaissance, a period in which the influence of English music ranged well outside the borders of British Isles. The surviving output of these composers is pitifully small, with Richard Davy known through only nine works, William Cornysh 24, Walter Lambe eight, and Robert Wylkynson three, excluding fragmentary pieces. The Eton Choirbook is our principal source for the sacred music of Cornysh and for all of the music of the others. This is largely due to the wholesale destruction of British Latin liturgical manuscripts during the "dissolution of the monasteries" carried out under King Henry VIII. The music is superlatively performed by the Sixteen and...
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