10 ESSENTIAL RENAISSANCE SACRED WORKS for BEGINNERS

10 Essential Renaissance Sacred Works for Beginners

Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame (before 1365)
Dufay: Missa L’homme armé (ca. 1450)
Ockeghem: Requiem (ca. 1460)
Josquin: Missa Ave maris stella (ca. 1490)
Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas (ca. 1520)
Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum (ca. 1555)
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass) (ca. 1562)
Tallis: Spem in Alium (ca. 1570)
Byrd: Masses for 3, 4 and 5 Voices (ca. 1593)
Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsoria (ca. 1611)