Ludford: Missa Benedicta / Antiennes Votives

Choir of New College Oxford; Edward Higginbottom, conductor

Nicholas Ludford c.1485-1557: Antienne Ave cuius conceptio; Missa Benedicta et Venerabilis (Introit: Salve sancta Parens - Gloira in excelsis Deo - Graduel: Benedicta et venerabilis - Alleluia: Post partum Virgo inviolata Alleluia - Credo in unum Deum - Offertoire: Ave Maria, gratia plena - Sanctus & Benedictus - Communion: Beata viscera - Agnus Dei); Antienne Domine Jesu Christe

GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER - EARLY MUSIC CD OF 2008
The music of Nicholas Ludford has been recovered only relatively recently. Few composers of his stature have been so comprehensively and so unjustly ignored for nearly five centuries. This recording presents one of his most accomplished 'festal' masses 'Benedicta et Venerabilis' and two of his extended antiphons.