The massive granite-like choral writing of early 16th-century Scottish choral music is here displayed in Carver’s magnificent nineteen-voice votive antiphon O bone Jesu, written for James IV King of Scots. The large-scale Missa Dum sacrum mysterium with its sumptuous polyphony may well have been sung at the coronation of James V in 1513.
Carver’s unique and compelling sound world is recreated here with polish and conviction by The Sixteen.
Robert Carver (c.1487-after 1566)
1. Plainsong: Dum sacrum mysterium
Missa Dum sacrum mysterium
2. Gloria
3. Credo
4. Sanctus
5. Benedictus
6. Agnus Dei
7. Magnificat – 7th tone faburden (Anon from the Carver Choirbook)
8. O bone Jesu a19