Gramophone Magazine
May 2021
Editor's Choice

Alice Hulett, Ruth Provost, David Gould
Contrapunctus, Owen Rees

White, Robert: Domine, non est exaltatum
Byrd: Tristitia et anxietas
Mundy, J: In te Domine speravi
anon.: Confitebor tibi Domine
Byrd: Peccavi Super Numerum
Parsons, R: Domine, quis habitabit?
Mundy, W: Memor esto verbi tui
Sheppard, J: Confitebor tibi
Byrd: Ne Perdas Cum Impiis
Daman: Confitebor tibi Domine
White, Robert: Portio mea

The final instalment in a celebrated three-part series by Contrapunctus, directed by Owen Rees, exploring the music of the Baldwin Partbooks, a remarkable treasure-house of Tudor sacred polyphony, some of which is not found anywhere else.

The collection consists of almost 170 works collected by John Baldwin, a lay clerk at St George’s Chapel, Windsor between 1575 and 1581.

“*****” - BBC Music Magazine (‘Baldwin Partbooks II’)

“*****” - Early Music Magazine (‘Baldwin Partbooks II’)  “Recording Of The Month” - Musicweb Int. (‘Baldwin Partbooks II’)

"They are in cracking form here, with no discernible weak link in the ensemble: honey-toned and purposeful sopranos, assertive countertenors and everything on down to match." - Gramophone Magazine, May 2021.