01 Bendinelli: Levet
02 Morales: Jubilate Deo omnis terra
03 Plainchant: Introitus
04 Ap Rhys: Kyrie
05 Taverner: Gloria, Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
06 Plainchant: Graduale
07 Sequentia
08 Taverner: Credo, Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
09 Plainchant: Prefatio
10 Taverner: Sanctus, Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
11 Cabezón: La dama le demanda
12 Morales: Pater noster
13 Taverner: Agnus Dei, Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
14 Plainchant: Communio
15 Morales: O sacrum convivium
16 Plainchant: Postcommunio
17 Bendinelli: Levet
18 Gombert: Jouissance vous donnerai
19 Sermisy: Tant que vivray

Glossa has always supported innovative perspectives on early music. For this reason, in 1998 it encouraged an excellent group of British singers and an instrumental ensemble led by the Frenchmen Jean-Pierre Canihac and Francis Mercet, all under the directorship of Richard Cheetham and going by the name of Orchestra of the Renaissance, to take on something as “brazen” as interpreting the polyphony of John Taverner with instrumental accompaniment. This stimulating program, which includes his Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas, portrays the nuptial ceremony of Maria Tudor and Philip of Spain at Winchester in 1554. The result is breathtaking and deeply moving.

The ensemble closed ranks in later projects such as Guerrero’s Requiem and Morales’ Assumption Mass, both released by Glossa with great commercial success. Here however, we want to pay tribute to the ensemble’s beginnings with this exquisite edition, another jewel from the new Glossa Platinum series.