The Arundel Choirbook is one of the most significant surviving collections of English polyphony from the early 16th century. As well as containing invaluable sources for masses by Robert Fayrfax and Nicholas Ludford, it also contains many works by lesser known and anonymous composers of the period. The Arundel or Lambeth Choirbook is celebrating it's 500th anniversary (Arundel College in Sussex was founded in 1380 and dissolved in 1544), and it is fitting that the Iken Scholars has selected a sequence of pieces by anonymous composers (known as the Lambeth Anonymous) that are receiving their world premiere recordings. The pieces are a selection of Magnificat settings, settings of Salve Regina, Ave dei patris, Ave mundi spes Maria, Vidi aquam egredientem and Gaude flore virginali. The seven Lambeth Anonymous settings are nestled between mass settings by Ludford and Fayrfax in the choirbook. This recording was made in the chapel at Lambeth Palace where the manuscripts have been housed since the early 17th century

Tracklist:

Salve regina~I. Salve regina
Salve regina~II. Benedictum fructum
Salve regina~III. O clemens
Ave dei patris filia~I. Ave dei patris
Ave dei patris filia~II. Ave Jesu
Ave dei patris filia~III. Ave virgo feta
Magnificat I~I. Magnificat: anima mea dominum
Magnificat I~II. Et misericordia ejus
Magnificat I~III. Suscepit Israel
Magnificat I~IV. Gloria patri et filio
Magnificat II~I. Magnificat: anima mea dominum
Magnificat II~II. Et misericordia ejus
Magnificat II~III. Suscepit Israel
Vidi aquam egredientem~I. Vidi aquam egredientem
Vidi aquam egredientem~II. Gloria patri
Ave mundi spes Maria~I. Ave mundi
Ave mundi spes Maria~II. Virgo, noli esse nobis aliena
Ave mundi spes Maria~III. Christe, fili summi patris
Gaude flore virginali~I. Gaude flore virginali
Gaude flore virginali~II. Gaude virgo mater Christi

UPC: 5061094590025
Label: Rubicon
Release Date: 2.27.26
Format: CD

Iken Scholars / Matthew Dunn - Lambeth Anonymous (CD)