Walter Lambe light house of polyphony of England obscur C.M

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Walter Lambe (1450–1? – after Michaelmas 1504) was an English composer.

His works are well represented in Eton Choirbook. Also Lambeth and Caius Choirbook include his works.

Born in Salisbury, elected King's Scholar at Eton College in August 1467 aged 15.[a] By 1477 Lambe was a clerk at Holy Trinity College, Arundel and in 1479 he moved to St George's Chapel, Windsor as a clerk of the choir there.[2]

List of works in Eton Choirbook
Ascendit Christus
Gaude flore virginali (lost)
Magnificat
Nesciens mater virgo virum
O Maria plena gratiae
O Regina caelestis gloriae (lost)
Salve regina
Stella caeli
Virgo gaude gloriosa (lost)

I am looking for a full CD of Walter Lambe Masses, motets, Lamentation

Via download ,CD'r bootleg of amateur polyphonist, The best I have found for Lambe is the CORO serie about the Ethon choir book, and it's prodigious, cmmon there gotta be an ensemble  that will pull out all his sacred work in on or two CD, he so great?

[Mandryka]

The Coro Eton Choirbook is very popular and well respected, I don't know it so well, I tend to enjoy Stephen Darlington more, for reasons I can't explain. He is outstanding in Lambe, some of the pieces are very substantial, for example O Maria Plena Gracia.


Stela Carli has been well taken up by the OVPP ensembles - Hillliard, Orlando, New York Polyphony have all done it. For that reason, I had assumed that its provenance must not be from a Choirbook.

[DaveF]

The whole area of performance from the big English choirbooks is a fascinating one (to me, anyway) and not much researched - not that there's much surviving material on which to do research.  Several well-known pictures show singers grouped around one large book, including one IIRR which supposedly depicts Ockeghem among the singers, but this would not always have been possible with the Eton book as sometimes parts for the same piece are on opposite sides of the same sheet.  Also the surviving half of the Eton book doesn't really show much sign of having been used (no corrections to the very haphazard key signatures or accidentals, for example).  So whether OVPP (probably the maximum you could fit around one book) or many to a part (if individual copies, all now long lost, were made of each part) is authentic, I wouldn't like to say.

Gotta now go and celebrate the Assumption and sing, almost certainly OVPP at this time of year, so back to this topic later.

I think Christophers/Sixteen and Darlington/Christ Church have managed to sow a bit of confusion (in my aging brain, anyway) by both producing 5 CDs of Eton Choirbook music with such similar titles: Voices of Angels/Choirs of Angels, The Pillars of Eternity/The Gates of Glory etc.  Darlington includes more Lambe than does Christophers: the Magnificat and Gaude flore virginali are unique to his set.  All other recordings seem to trot out the same two pieces, Nesciens mater and Stella cæli.  Ascendit Christus and O Maria plena gratia are, as far as I can see, unrecorded.  It's a pity as, in my estimation anyway, Lambe is one of the better Eton composers - perhaps not a genius on the level of Fayrfax or Browne (who also awaits a complete recording of his surviving opus), but up there with the best of the rest.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

The whole area of performance from the big English choirbooks is a fascinating one (to me, anyway) and not much researched - not that there's much surviving material on which to do research.  Several well-known pictures show singers grouped around one large book, including one IIRR which supposedly depicts Ockeghem among the singers, but this would not always have been possible with the Eton book as sometimes parts for the same piece are on opposite sides of the same sheet.  Also the surviving half of the Eton book doesn't really show much sign of having been used (no corrections to the very haphazard key dear DaveF signatures or accidentals, for example).  So whether OVPP (probably the maximum you could fit around one book) or many to a part (if individual copies, all now long lost, were made of each part) is authentic, I wouldn't like to say.

Gotta now go and celebrate the Assumption and sing, almost certainly OVPP at this time of year, so back to this topic later.

Mister you seem like a smart knowledge  guy, down to earth , like ya buddy, you're intervention on my post is a true honor thanks you  a lot  dear DavidF.