40 voices Polyphonic masterworks for large choral ensembles, from the Renaissance to the 20th century
Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel
1h02
Digital
HMC801954
Excerpt:
Peaks of Renaissance music. While the latter half of the sixteenth century saw the first stirrings of the Baroque, this period also witnessed the creation of the finest cathedrals in sound, with their foundations in the distant Gothic era of music . . . Composers vied with each other in daring and ingenuity, presenting works with twelve, sixteen, twenty-four and even, in the case of Tallis’s famous Spem in alium, forty different voices! The Huelgas Ensemble celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary with a spectacular selection of these works, recorded live without a ‘safety net’.
WILLEM CEULEERS [1962-] · Nomen mortis infame à 35 (12'27) JUAN BAUTISTA COMES [1582?-1643] · Gloria à 12 (4'57) JOSQUIN DESPREZ [1440-1521] · Qui habitat à 24 (5'30) ROBERT WYLKYNSON [c.1450-ap.1515] · Jesus autem / Credo in Deum à 13 (3'09) ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO SR [c.1540-1592] · Ecce beatam lucem à 40 (8'05) PIETER MAESSINS [c.1505-1563] · En venant de Lyon à 16 (2'07) JOÃO LOURENÇO REBELO [1610-1661] · Lauda Jerusalem à 16 (8'56) GIOVANNI GABRIELI [1553-1612] · Exaudi me Domine à 16 (5'18) THOMAS TALLIS [c.1505-1585] · Spem in alium à 40 (10'23)