Tomkins/Weelkes - When David Heard

Recorded 8-10 January 1993. Released September 1993.

This album presents contrastingly characterful works by Thomas Weelkes and Thomas Tomkins, including both composers’ magisterial settings of ‘When David heard that Absalom was slain’.

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Tracklisting

1. Weelkes – Hosanna to the Son of David
2. Weelkes – O how happy he whom thou protect’st
3. Weelkes – O Jonathan, woe is me
4. Weelkes – O Lord, arise into thy resting place
5. Weelkes – Laboravi in gemitu meo
6. Weelkes – O how amiable are thy dwellings
7. Weelkes – Gloria in excelsis Deo
8. Weelkes – O Lord, grant the king a long life
9. Weelkes – When David heard that Absalom was slain
10. Weelkes – All people clap your hands
11. Tomkins – Be strong and of a good courage
12. Tomkins – Funeral Sentences
13. Tomkins – Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place
14. Tomkins – When David heard that Absalom was slain
15. Tomkins – O sing unto the Lord a new song
16. Tomkins – Domine, tu eruisti animam meam
17. Tomkins – Woe is me that I am constrained
18. Tomkins – O God, the proud are risen
19. Tomkins – Then David mourned
20. Tomkins – O praise the Lord all ye heathen