Magnificat - The Tudors At Prayer - The Sunday Times

This aurally luxuriant collection of Latin settings by five of the finest Tudor composers opens with a masterpiece of its age, William Mundy's vast, ornate and infinitely texturally varied Vox patris caelestis, written in Mary's reign, but resurrecting the pre-Reformation votive antiphon tradition. The singers of Magnificat are acutely responsive to this architecture. At the end comes William Byrd's great 1575 motet Tribue Domine.