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The Sweetest Songs: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks III
Anonymous - William Byrd - Robert Parsons - John Sheppard - Robert White - John Mundy - William Daman

The Sweetest Songs: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks III

Contrapunctus

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212063323
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Catalog number: SIGCD 633
Releasedate: 12-02-21
- Vol 3 in critically acclaimed series. Leading UK Collegiate Choir.

The richest single source of Tudor polyphony, preserving almost 170 works many of which survive nowhere else, is a set of manuscript partbooks copied between about 1575 and 1581 by John Baldwin, a lay clerk at St George’s Chapel, Windsor.

This album is the third and final instalment in a series of recordings by Contrapunctus exploring contrasting aspects of this remarkable treasure house of sacred music covering much of the sixteenth century.