Christopher Tye
Christopher Tye (c. 1505–before 1573) was an English Renaissance composer and organist, noted for sacred choral music and chamber polyphony. Only a fraction of his output survives, among it masses, anthems and a celebrated series of In nomines.
His mass Missa Euge Bone (MD 3201) and the anthem Sing unto the Lord (MD 3064) are among the Tudor sacred works recorded for Move. The consort piece Sit Fast (MD 3337) appears in a chamber programme that sets early polyphony on modern instruments.
Christopher Tye is featured on the following titles
Kodály Missa Brevis
Recorded on their 1997 European tour in Northern Italy and Germany, the Choir of Ormond College sings Kodály’s Missa Brevis, with works by Tye, Howells and Bach.
Compositions by Christopher Tye also appear on
Old Wine, New Bottles
Floyd Williams and JANUS illustrate the cross-fertilisation of folk, popular and jazz idioms within classical music. The premise was to play early music of the 14th–16th centuries on modern instruments, free of purist historical constraints.
When David heard that Absalom was slain
The Choir of Ormond College specialised in liturgical music of the 16th and 20th centuries. This recording also includes psalm settings, among them Allegri’s Miserere, a setting of the penitential Psalm 51 once reserved for the Sistine Chapel in Holy Week.