The Spy's Choirbook
Petrus Alamire & the Court of Henry VIII
Anonym - Desprez - Josquin - u.a.
Alamire - David Skinner (Dir)
Label : Obsidian
Artikelnummer: CD712
2 CD
CHF 31.50
English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble // Among the musical treasures in the British Library is MS Royal 8.g.vii, a sumptuous choirbook prepared for Henry VIII and his first queen Catherine of Aragon. It was produced by Petrus Alamire, who not only headed one of the finest musical scriptoriums of the age but acted as a spy for Henry against Richard de la Pole, a Plantagenet claimant to the English throne.