LASSUS: CHORAL MUSIC - CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE; CHOIR OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL OXFORD (3 CDS)
LASSUS: CHORAL MUSIC - CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE; CHOIR OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL OXFORD (3 CDS)
FORMAT (CD, LP, DVD?)
FORMAT (CD, LP, DVD?)
Three original Argo and Decca albums compiled together for the first time: Lassus with an English accent. In 1970 Preston became Organist and Choirmaster at the Cathedral of Christ Church Oxford, and the Argo recordings that resulted pay eloquent testament to his gifts as a choir trainer. A pair of them featured music by the most fluent of the Low Countries polyphonists, Orlando Lassus.
The first was made in 1973, and widely recognised as a landmark album for its clarity of inner-part voicing and vivid sensitivity to Lassus’s word-painting. A sequel followed two years later, pairing the fifth of the Penitential Psalms with some of the motets for which the composer is best known such as the splendid Omnes de Saba venient and Alma Redemptoris Mater with its soaring top line ideally suited to an English cathedral treble line. A Decca album of three Masses made two decades later enables instructive comparisons to be made between the pointed attack of Preston’s Christ Church choir in this music with the much smoother euphony of King’s College, Cambridge.
Commentators habitually rank Lassus’s Masses well below his motets, but nothing in the Masses heard here discloses Lassus at anything less than the height of his powers. Both Missa Bell’ Amfitrit Altera and Missa Vinum Bonum are conceived for double choir - each choir being in SATB formation - and they accordingly show a greater opulence than most of their companions.New booklet notes introduce Lassus’s life and work, written by the renowned scholar of Renaissance polyphony, R.J. Stove.
‘[Preston] can achieve brilliant effects from a choir; the sonorities in his performance of Omnes de saba venient are hair-raising, and his reading of the splendiferous Tui sunt coeli is no less superb.’ - High Fidelity, March 1978
‘A sensitive and powerful account of the highest technical accomplishment, one of the most exciting records of early choral music to appear for some time. Recording quality is high.’ - Musical Times, January 1977 (Christ Church, Oxford)
‘These are fine performances, typical of the English treble tradition at its best.’ - Gramophone, July 1996 (King’s College, Cambridge)
ORLANDE DE LASSUS
CD 1
Missa Bell’ Amfitrit Altera
Psalmus Poenitentialis VII
CD 2
Omnes de Saba venient
Salve Regina
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Psalmus Poenitentialis V*
Tui sunt coeli
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Simon Preston
CD 3
Missa Super Triste depart
Missa Super Quand’io pens’al martire
Motet: Vinum Bonum
Missa ad imitationem Vinum Bonum
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury
FIRST CD RELEASE*
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