Contrapunctus

Sweetest Songs: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks III Contrapunctus

Volume 3 in critically acclaimed series. Leading UK Collegiate Choir. The richest single source of Tudor polyphony, preserving almost 170 works many of which survive nowhere else, is a set of manuscript partbooks copied between about 1575 and 1581 by John Baldwin, a lay clerk at St George's Chapel, Windsor.

This album is the third and final instalment in a series of recordings by Contrapunctus exploring contrasting aspects of this remarkable treasure house of sacred music covering much of the sixteenth century.

Works by Anonymous, William Byrd, Robert Parsons, John Sheppard, Robert White, John Mundy, William Daman, Willam Mundy.