CARVER: O bone Jesu; Missa Dum sacrum mysterium; Magnificat - The Sixteen

The massive granite-like choral writing of early 16th-century Scottish choral music is here displayed in Carver’s magnificent nineteen-voice votive antiphon O bone Jesu, written for James IV King of Scots. The large-scale Missa Dum sacrum mysterium with its sumptuous polyphony may well have been sung at the coronation of James V in 1513.

Carver’s unique and compelling sound world is recreated here with polish and conviction by The Sixteen.

Robert Carver (c.1487-after 1566)
1. Plainsong: Dum sacrum mysterium

Missa Dum sacrum mysterium
2. Gloria
3. Credo
4. Sanctus
5. Benedictus
6. Agnus Dei

7. Magnificat - 7th tone faburden (Anon from the Carver Choirbook)

8. O bone Jesu a19