This generous collection of Tye's three surviving masses is well sung and recorded in the resonant Lady Chapel where Christopher Tye worked around the 1540s and 50s. The secular Western Wynd song was also used as the basis of mases by Taverner and Sheppard. The constitution of the choir is not given, but it sounds quite large. The Euge Bone mass is sumptuous, with eight part textures in the Agnus Dei. Notes are full, though details known of Tye's life are scanty. One for the specialist perhaps, but a worthwhile addition to ASV's Gaudeamus collection

Reviewer

Peter Grahame Woolf