The Early Music Show - 18/01/2009

Organist Simon Lole explores the Mulliner Book, one of the most important collections of Tudor keyboard music. It was compiled in the 1560s by Thomas Mulliner, an organist at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and it now resides in the British Library. Assumed by some to have been used for training choirboys, the book contains 121 keyboard works, of which over half are based on liturgical chants. The collection contains works by Thomas Tallis, John Redford, William Blitheman, John Taverner and Christopher Tye as well as several anonymous works. Anon: Galliard (Mulliner Book) Joseph Payne (organ) Naxos 8.850718 Track: 1 Newman: Pavan (Mulliner Book) Paul Wolfe (harpsichord) Lyrichord LEMS8033 CD 1 Track: 1 Thomas Tallis: Remember Not, O Lord (Mulliner Book) Joseph Payne (organ) Naxos 8.550719 Track: 1 William Munday: Tres Partes in Una (Mulliner Book) Paul Wolfe (harpsichord) Lyrichord LEMS8033 CD 1 Track: 3 Anon: Felix Namque (plainchant) Anonymous 4 Harmonia Mundi HMU 907080 Track: 14 Anon: Gloria Tibi Trinitas (plainchant) The Sixteen/Harry Christophers Helios CDH 55052 Track: 1 John Taverner: Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas: Sanctus and Benedictus The Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips Gimell CDGIM 004 Track: 5 Thomas Tallis: In Nomine II Charivari Agreable Signum SIGCD 042 CD 1 Track: 2 William Blitheman: Gloria Tibi Trinitas iii (Mulliner Book) Paul Wolfe (harpsichord) Lyrichord LEMS8033 CD 1 Track: 7 William Blitheman: Gloria Tibi Trinitas iv (Mulliner Book) Paul Wolfe (harpsichord) Lyrichord LEMS8033 CD 1 Track: 8 John Redford: O Lux with a meane (Mulliner Book) Joseph Payne (organ) Naxos 8.850718 Track: 4 John Redford: Salvator with a meane (Mulliner Book) Joseph Payne (organ) Naxos 8.550719 Track 7 Dur: 0.47 John Redford: Lucem tuam (Mulliner Book) Joseph Payne (organ) Naxos 8.550718 Track: 7 Thomas Tallis: Like as the doleful dove (song) Stephen Taylor (counter tenor) Lynda Sayce (lute) Signum SIGCD 042 CD 1 Track: 21 Thomas Tallis: Like as the doleful dove (Mulliner Book) Laurence Cummings (harpsichord) Signum SIGCD 042 CD 1 Track: 9 Thomas Tallis: O ye tender babes (song) Stephen Taylor (counter tenor) Lynda Sayce (lute) Signum SIGCD 042 CD 1 Track: 22 Thomas Tallis: O ye tender babes (Mulliner Book) Laurence Cummings (harpsichord) Signum SIGCD 042 CD 1 Track: 10 Thomas Tallis: Per haec nos (Mulliner Book) Rachelle Taylor (organ) ATMA Classique ACD2 2349 Track: 1 Anon: La Shymyze (Mulliner Book) The Folger Consort BARD BDCD 9510 Track: 1 Anon: La Doune Celle (Mulliner Book) The Folger Consort BARD BDCD 9510 Track: 2 Anon: La Bounette (Mulliner Book) The Folger Consort BARD BDCD 9510 Track: 3 Anon: Galliard (Mulliner Book) Skip Sempe (harpsichord) ASTREE NAIVE E8841 Track: 10 The programme also features under speech: Thomas Tallis: A Point (Mulliner Book) Laurence Cummings (harpsichord) Signum SIGCD042 CD 1 Track: 13.