swap_horiz Tenebrae Responsories (Gesualdo) Alternatives

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Spem in Alium

Thomas Tallis's Spem in alium is a Latin motet for forty independent voices, arranged as eight choirs of five parts each...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Tallis

9.2 Excellent

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Missa Papae Marcelli

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli is a six-voice setting of the Latin Mass Ordinary, published in...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Mass

9.2 Excellent

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Officium Defunctorum (Victoria)

Tomás Luis de Victoria's Officium Defunctorum is a collection of music for the Catholic Office and Mass for the Dead, pu...

Renaissance Sacred Victoria A Cappella

9.2 Excellent

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Missa Pange Lingua (Josquin)

Josquin des Prez's Missa Pange lingua is a four-voice setting of the Mass Ordinary based on the plainsong hymn Pange lin...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Mass

9.2 Excellent

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Ave Maria... virgo serena (Josquin)

Ave Maria... virgo serena is a four-voice Latin motet by Josquin des Prez, probably composed during the late fifteenth c...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Josquin

9.2 Excellent

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All-Night Vigil Op. 37 (Rachmaninoff)

Sergei Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, Op. 37, is an unaccompanied choral setting of texts from the Russian Orthodox eve...

Modern Sacred A Cappella Rachmaninoff

9.2 Excellent

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Sicut Cervus

Sicut cervus is a four-voice Latin motet by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, first published in the sixteenth century....

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Palestrina

9.1 Excellent

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O Magnum Mysterium (Victoria)

O magnum mysterium is a four-voice Latin motet by the Spanish Renaissance composer Tomás Luis de Victoria, published in...

Renaissance Sacred Victoria A Cappella

9.1 Excellent

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Mass for Five Voices (Byrd)

William Byrd's Mass for Five Voices is an unaccompanied Latin setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, probably composed dur...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Mass

9.1 Excellent

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Missa Prolationum (Ockeghem)

Johannes Ockeghem's Missa Prolationum is a Renaissance polyphonic setting of the Mass Ordinary, probably composed in the...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Mass

9.1 Excellent

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Mass for Four Voices (Byrd)

William Byrd's Mass for Four Voices is an unaccompanied Latin setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, probably composed dur...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Mass

9.0 Excellent

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Penitential Psalms (Lasso)

The Penitential Psalms by Orlando di Lasso are Renaissance polyphonic settings of the seven psalms traditionally associa...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Psalm

8.8 Great

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Missa L'homme armé (Dufay)

Guillaume Dufay's Missa L'homme armé is a Renaissance polyphonic setting of the Mass Ordinary, probably composed during...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Mass

8.6 Great

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Nesciens mater (Mouton)

Nesciens mater is a Latin motet by the French Renaissance composer Jean Mouton, setting a Marian text about the Virgin g...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Motet

8.5 Great

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Cantiones Sacrae (Byrd)

William Byrd's Cantiones Sacrae are two printed collections of Latin motets published in 1589 and 1591. Written chiefly...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Byrd

8.5 Great

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Magnum Opus Musicum (Lassus)

Magnum Opus Musicum is a posthumous collection of 516 motets by the Renaissance composer Orlando di Lasso, also known as...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Lassus

8.4 Great

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Media vita in morte sumus (Gombert)

Media vita in morte sumus is a sacred motet by the Renaissance composer Nicolas Gombert, setting the Latin antiphon whos...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Motet

8.3 Great

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Cantiones Sacrae (Tallis)

Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur is a 1575 collection of Latin motets jointly published by English composers...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Tallis

8.2 Great

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Il primo libro de madrigali (Gesualdo)

Carlo Gesualdo's First Book of Madrigals (1594) comprises five-voice secular works that, while more conventional than hi...

Renaissance Secular A Cappella Gesualdo

7.4 Good

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O Bone Jesu (Palestrina)

"O Bone Jesu" is a Renaissance motet attributed to Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525–1594), a composer central t...

Renaissance Sacred A Cappella Palestrina

7.4 Good