Laudent Deum: Sacred Music by Orlande de Lassus
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Label: Chandos - Chaconne
Cat No: CHAN0778
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 28th February 2011
Contents
Works
Agimus tibi gratiasAlleluia laus et gloria
Cantiones duarum vocum sine text
Exaudi Deus orationem meam
Fratres qui gloriatur
Jubilate Deo omnis terra
Laetentur coeli
Laudate pueri Dominum a7
Laudent Deum cythara
Magnificat 'O che vezzosa aurora'
Magnificat tertii toni
O Maria clausus hortus
Omnes de Saba venient
Omnia tempus habent
O peccator
Quid gloriaris
Qui moderatur sermones suos
Qui sequitur me
Resonet in laudibus
Timor et tremor
Veni in hortum meum
Artists
Timothy Ravalde (organ)His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
Conductor
Andrew NethsinghaWorks
Agimus tibi gratiasAlleluia laus et gloria
Cantiones duarum vocum sine text
Exaudi Deus orationem meam
Fratres qui gloriatur
Jubilate Deo omnis terra
Laetentur coeli
Laudate pueri Dominum a7
Laudent Deum cythara
Magnificat 'O che vezzosa aurora'
Magnificat tertii toni
O Maria clausus hortus
Omnes de Saba venient
Omnia tempus habent
O peccator
Quid gloriaris
Qui moderatur sermones suos
Qui sequitur me
Resonet in laudibus
Timor et tremor
Veni in hortum meum
Artists
Timothy Ravalde (organ)His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
Conductor
Andrew NethsinghaAbout
Lassus was a prolific and versatile composer and the most famous musician of his day. By the age of twenty-one, he had been appointed Director of Music at the church of St John Lateran in Rome, an impressive appointment for one so young. More than 2000 works by Lassus survive: Latin settings of masses, canticles, motets, passions, litanies and hymns, as well as secular pieces in Italian, French and German.
Lassus was charismatic and gregarious. However, he was also bipolar, a condition that caused him personal unhappiness, but which also accounted for some of the more original and startling passages in his music.
The pieces on this recording represent only a small part of his enormous output: nineteen of the 750-odd surviving motets; two of the one hundred Magnificat settings; and three of his dozen purely instrumental works. It is a small sample, but it shows a composer whose formidable technique, kaleidoscopic ear for texture, and matchless word settings made him the darling of the musical High Renaissance in Western Europe.
The majority of Lassus’s motets were settings of religious texts. Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum is one of two seven-voice pieces chosen for this recording, and its rich texture allows Lassus to explore appealing vocal combinations without breaking into double-choir cliché. Veni in hortum meum places the listener in the gently seductive world of the Songs of Songs – that ‘sensuously exciting and baffling’ book of the Bible, to quote the English novelist and poet A S Byatt.
The two Magnificat settings on this recording were composed at least twenty years apart. The Magnificat ‘O che vezzosa aurora’ dates from the mid-1580s. A significant proportion of this work is based directly on a six-voice madrigal by the Modenese composer Orazio Vecchi (1550–1605), which was published around the same time. Lassus’s own setting, however, is sunny and optimistic in six-voice sections, and respectively robust and reflective in the three- and four-voice sections.
Track Listing:
1. Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum (premiere)
2. Veni in hortum meum (premiere)
3. Qui sequitur me (premiere)
4. Resonet in laudibus
5. Sine textu 15 (premiere)
6. Omnes de Saba venient
7. Qui moderatur sermones suos (premiere)
8. Exaudi, Deus, orationem meam (premiere)
9. Jubilate Deo, omnis terra
10. Sine textu 19 (premiere)
11. Timor et tremor
12. Omnia tempus habent
13. Alleluia, laus et gloria
14. Magnificat tertii toni (premiere)
15. Quid gloriaris in malitia (premiere)
16. Laudate pueri Dominum
17. O Maria, clausus hortus (premiere)
18. Laetentur caeli
19. Laudent Deum cithara
20. Sine textu 13 (premiere)
21. O peccator, si filium Dei (premiere)
22. Fratres, quie gloriatur (premiere)
23. Agimus tibi gratias (premiere)
24. Magnificat 'O che vezzosa aurora' (premiere)
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