This recording of Cristóbal de Morales' smoothly sober Missa Mille regretz originally appeared under the unlikely auspices of Deutsche Grammophon in 1996 and then was reissued by the Netherlands' budget specialists Brilliant. Neither outfit is a natural home for this performance by British early music conductor Paul McCreesh, leading his confusingly named Gabrieli Consort & Players. The album would be more at home on Ricercar or one of the other labels specializing in well-researched re-creations of Renaissance and Baroque ...
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This recording of Cristóbal de Morales' smoothly sober Missa Mille regretz originally appeared under the unlikely auspices of Deutsche Grammophon in 1996 and then was reissued by the Netherlands' budget specialists Brilliant. Neither outfit is a natural home for this performance by British early music conductor Paul McCreesh, leading his confusingly named Gabrieli Consort & Players. The album would be more at home on Ricercar or one of the other labels specializing in well-researched re-creations of Renaissance and Baroque music, for it is an unusually detailed realization of a Renaissance mass in context. The Morales piece is a parody mass -- a mass that elaborates upon several voices of a polyphonic model -- based on the famous Josquin Desprez chanson Mille regretz (A Thousand Regrets). That piece itself is not included here, although a version by Nicolas Gombert, played instrumentally, does add a third layer of the work's influence to the program. The album as a whole is intended to re-create the...
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