Tye: In Nomine – Works For Recorder Consort

BOREAS QUARTETT BREMEN TOL

Named after the god of the north wind, the recorder quartet Boreas Quartet Bremen’s superb technique, perfect intonation, and incredible precision led by Han Tol are perfect partners with this selection of works from the collection In Nomine by English Renaissance composers Christopher Tye and John Taverner. Composed with a breadth of character and style, the In Nomine pieces were unique for their time with the manuscript formatted in a way that it wasn’t placed on a music stand, but rather on and read from a flat surface. This along with the score being readable depending on the musician’s proximity to it led to a manner of performing necessitating a closed circle seating of smaller and more intimate dimensions. Luminously detailed readings by Boreas who also play recorders based on copies of original instruments by the famed instrument building Schnitzer family of Nuremberg for this recording.

Price: $25.98