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Stile Antico: Puer Natus Est - Tudor Music for Advent and Christmas

Song Name   Composer
Videte miraculum   Thomas Tallis
Audivi vocem de caelo   John Taverner
Rorate caeli desuper (Gradualia I, 1605)   William Byrd
Gloria (Missa Puer natus est)   Thomas Tallis
Tollite portas (Gradualia I)   William Byrd
Sanctus & Benedictus (Missa puer natus est)   Thomas Tallis
Ave Maria (Gradualia I)   William Byrd
Agnus Dei (Missa Puer natus est)   Thomas Tallis
Ecce virgo concipiet (Gradualia I)   William Byrd
Magnificat   Robert White
Puer natus est   Plainchant
Verbum caro   John Sheppard

Stile Antico's program centers on Thomas Tallis's magnificent seven-part Christmas Mass, based on the festive plainchant Puer natus est ('A boy is born'). The mass is interspersed with seasonal Tudor music, including William Byrd's exquisite Propers for the fourth Sunday of Advent, responsories by Taverner and Sheppard, Robert White's exuberant setting of the Magnificat, and Tallis's own sublime Videte miraculum.

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