01	Kyrie 'cum jublio'						01:42
	02	Gloria in excelsis Deo						02:28
	03	Et in terra pax						04:47
	04	Laudamus te, benedicimus te, adoramus te, glorificamus te.						02:32
	05	Gratias agimus tibi						00:28
	06	propter magnam gloriam tuam.						00:54
	07	Domine Deus, Rex coelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens.						03:24
	08	Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe.						02:18
	09	Domine Deus, Agnus Dei						04:39
	10	Qui tollis peccata mundi						01:11
	11	Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris						02:30
	12	Quoniam tu solus Sanctus						00:51
	13	Cum Sancto Spiritu						03:03
	14	Sinfonia 'al Santo Sepolcro'						03:50
	15	Laetatus sum						03:36
	16	Hymnus, Ave maris stella						03:25
	17	Magnificat						01:01
	18	Et exultavit spiritus meus						02:15
	19	Et misericordia eius a progenie in progenies timentibus eum.						03:22
	20	Fecit potentiam in bracchio suo						01:18
	21	Esurientes implevit bonis						01:33
	22	Suscepit Israel, puerum suum						00:40
	23	Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros						01:20
	24	Gloria Patri, gloria Filio						01:53
	25	Antiphona, Salve Regina						02:59
	26	Laudate Dominum omnes gentes						01:52
	27	Sonata 'al Santo Sepolcro'						03:47
	28	In exitu Israel de Aegypto						03:52

Andrew Parrott
Country England
Birth Mar 10, 1947 in Walsall

Biography

Andrew Parrott is an English conductor especially well-known for his part in the early music movement, but also as a conductor of general repertory with an emphasis on modern music.
At Oxford University he studied research methods into early music performance practices, specializing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He became a musical assistant to composer Sir Michael Tippett, himself one of the earliest British music figures of the twentieth century to develop a strong interest in Renaissance English music. Tippett was associated with the Bath Festivals and suggested that Parrott form a choir for Renaissance music performance at the 1973 festival. Following Tippett's suggestion, Parrott organized The Taverner Choir, named after John Taverner (ca. 1490 - 1545), a leading English composer of that era. The choir was a success, becoming an independent ensemble of its own. Subsequently, Parrott organized the Taverner Players and the Taverner Consort with the same musical emphasis. The Players or Consort often appear with the choir.

Parrott and the Taverner groups have built one of the leading reputations in Baroque and pre-Baroque music. They appeared at the 1977 Promenade Concerts in London in Monteverdi's Vespers and were the first to give a period instruments performance in London of Bach's Mass in B minor.

Parrott's career includes substantial work researching, writing, and lecturing on early music. His The Essential Bach Choir was published in 2000, and he was co-editor of the New Oxford Book of Carols. His activities also include a substantial amount of performing later repertory and has expanded to a sizeable involvement in opera. He has appeared with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and has a close relationship with the Slovak Philharmonic and the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague. In 1989 he became artistic director of the Kent Opera and has conducted at La Scala, the Royal Swedish Opera at Drottningholm, and the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, London. He is an active conductor of modern music, including works of Tippett, Tavener, Nono, Varese, Britten, and Stravinsky, and premiered Judith Weir's A Night at the Chinese Opera. In 2000, he was named musical director and principal conductor of the London Mozart Players and in 2002 took on the same positions with the New York Collegium.

Before becoming an exclusive Sony Classics artist, Parrott recorded on the L'Oiseau-Lyre and Hyperion labels and on the EMI Reflexe and Virgin Veritas labels. -- Joseph Stevenson



Taverner Consort Choir

Biography

The Taverner Choir, Players, and Consort are among the best-known British early music organizations, but are also known for their interest in contemporary music.
They were founded by Andre Parrott, musical assistant to Sir Michael Tippett, one of the best-known English composers, whose style had been shaped by his deep interest in the golden age of polyphonic English Renaissance music. Tippett suggested that Parrott assemble a choir to sing Renaissance music at the 1973 Bath Festival. He chose the name Taverner for the choir to honor John Taverner, an important English Catholic composer of the first half of the sixteenth century.

(The Renaissance John Taverner is sometimes confused with the contemporary English composer John Tavener. The present-day Tavener is in fact descended from a Taverner family line, the "R" having been excised by a teetotaling ancestor who did not fancy a surname meaning "tavern-owner." John Tavener was recently disappointed to learn that it is not likely he is descended from John Taverner, as he had previously believed. The potential for confusion is compounded since the Taverner Choir have music of both their namesake Taverner and their near namesake Tavener in their repertory.)

After the success of the choir, Parrott founded instrumental groups both to work with the choir and to continue his musical researches into the non-vocal realm. The Players are essentially a variable chamber group, and the consort is a Renaissance or Baroque orchestra.

They have recorded over 30 releases, nearly always of early music, and most of them for EMI companies. Most of their EMI recordings are being transferred to the company's Virgin Veritas imprint. Subsequently, they became exclusive Sony Classics artists.

Parrott remains the director of the three ensembles. The Associate Director is Malcolm Bruno. Born in the United States and educated at New York University, he went to London in 1974 for post-graduate research at King's College London, where he earned a doctorate, and studied composition at the Royal College of Music. He has held the position since 1986. His responsibilities with the Taverner are in program development, and in the details of recording, television, and radio work. -- Joseph Stevenson