The male-voice quartet the Hilliard Ensemble was founded in 1974 and was disbanded after 40 years in 2014. It’s singers were praised by Gramophone for “the superlative purity of their vibrato-free tone, perfect blend and balance of voices and immaculate intonation.” The blend between the voices is finely controlled, the tone mellow and the tuning spectacularly accurate, giving rise to an organ-like sonority that is genuinely thrilling,” wrote Gramophone magazine, praising the Hilliard Ensemble’s four singers, who excelled in an extraordinary variety of music over a 40-year career. This seven-CD collection extends from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, offering music by composers from England, France, Flanders and Germany.
anon.: Agnus Dei
anon.: Alma Redemptoris Mater
anon.: Ave regina caelorum
anon.: Beata Preogenies
anon.: Nesciens mater
anon.: Pia mater gratie
anon.: Post Missarum Solemnia
anon.: Sanctus
Bach, J S: Motet BWV225 ‘Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied’
Bach, J S: Motet BWV226 ‘Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf’
Bach, J S: Motet BWV227 ‘Jesu, meine Freude’
Bach, J S: Motet BWV228 ‘Fürchte dich nicht’
Bach, J S: Motet BWV229 ‘Komm, Jesu, komm!’
Bach, J S: Motet BWV230 ‘Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden’
Bach, J S: Motets, BWV225-230
Byttering: En Katerine solennia
Byttering: Nesciens mater
Cooke, John: Ave Regina Caelorum
Cooke, John: Stella celi
Damett: Beata Dei genetrix Maria
Damett: Salve porta paradisi
Dufay: Alma Redemptoris Mater
Dufay: Ecclesiae militantis
Dufay: Gloria
Dufay: Missa L’homme arme
Dufay: Nuper rosarum flores
Dufay: O sancte Sebastiane
Dufay: Salve flos Tusce gentis
Forest: Ascendit Christus
Forest: Qualis est dilectus
Isaac: Commune Festorum Beatae Mariae Virginis
Isaac: Es het ein Baur ein Töchterlein
Isaac: Es wollt ein meydlein grasen gan
Isaac: Fammi una gratia amore
Isaac: Greiner, Zancker, Schnopffitzer
Isaac: J’ay pris amours
Isaac: La morra
Isaac: Missa Paschalis (Easter Mass)
Isaac: Quis dabit capiti meo aquam?
Maysheut: Ave post libamina
Monte, P: Dolce mio caro
Monte, P: Comme la tourterelle
Monte, P: La Deesse Venus
Monte, P: La dolce vista
Monte, P: O suavitas et dulcedo
Monte, P: Parce Mihi, Domine
Ockeghem: Alma Redemptoris Mater
Oliver: Agnus Dei
Pennard: Credo
Power, L: Agnus Dei, OH141
Power, L: Ave Regina, OH43
Power, L: Beata progenies
Power, L: Beata viscera
Power, L: Credo
Power, L: Gloria
Power, L: Ibo michi ad montem
Power, L: Missa ‘Alma redemptoris mater’
Power, L: Quam pulchra es
Power, L: Salve Regina
Power, L: Sanctus
Pycard: Gloria
Queldryk: Gloria
Schütz: St Matthew Passion, SWV 479