The music of Dering forms a lively commentary on the complex artistic interchange between England and the continent in the early seventeenth century, and the picture is extended with this collection of small-scale settings of Latin texts with continuo accompaniment. Performed both in the chapel of Queen Henrietta Maria and in the residential quarters of Oliver Cromwell, these pieces were clearly much in demand for intimate devotional observances. Motets from printed and manuscript sources are in...

• Alleluia, gaudeamus CCB bc
• Anima Christi (attrib.) CB bc
• Ardens est cor meum CB bc
• Ardens est cor meum Short score & voice and lute arrangement
• Augustine / O Messia (attrib.) -TB bc [lacks 1 voice]
• Beatus Laurentius / O felix ecclesia (attrib.) CB [bc]
• Beatus vir qui inventus est TT bc
• Canite Jehovae canticum novum CB bc
• Cantate Domino canticum novum CCB bc
• Conceptio tua Dei genitrix virgo CB bc
• Confitemini Domino (attrib.) [B]BB bc
• Dulcissime Jesu Christe (att...