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J.S. Bach Masses. Album by The SixteenAlbum Description Bach was a Lutheran church musician devoted to the composition of sacred music in German. He wrote more than 200 cantatas for the liturgy, most of them in Leipzig. Despite their name, the four Lutheran Masses feature almost no Lutheran material. Sometimes called Missa brevis, musically they are almost entirely made up of movements borrowed from Bachs Cantatas but, while they are often overshadowed by the more famous Mass in B minor,

He gave them hailstones for rain

William Cornysh (1465-1523)

1 which bristle with curiosity and possibility to the wit and humour of Quartet No

Tui sunt caeli

The Hour-Glass

which Sir John especially requested The Sixteen record

The 17th-century devotional songs on this disc were written against a backdrop of furious historical dramas and lurching tides of fortune

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 1hr 7mins

Samson opens with a pagan festival and closes with an elegy

Malcolm BOYLE (c1902-76)

Sleep downy sleep come close mine eyes

drama and an evocative musical language which is so beautifully constructed for all concerned