The appearance of this album on British classical charts is explained by more than the insatiable attitude of the public there toward well-sung choral music. This is, after all, obscure music of a fairly obscure composer, most of it never recorded before. Chalk it up to Hyperion's ideally idiomatic sound from All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London, perhaps. Or more likely to the fact that, even though the music is new -- dug partly out of the archives by conductor Stephen Rice -- taken together, it offers a pretty good ...
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The appearance of this album on British classical charts is explained by more than the insatiable attitude of the public there toward well-sung choral music. This is, after all, obscure music of a fairly obscure composer, most of it never recorded before. Chalk it up to Hyperion's ideally idiomatic sound from All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London, perhaps. Or more likely to the fact that, even though the music is new -- dug partly out of the archives by conductor Stephen Rice -- taken together, it offers a pretty good picture of Jacob Obrecht's music for general listeners. Obrecht in his own time was considered a peer of Josquin's, and succeeded him at the court of the Duke of Ferrara only to die of plague there soon after making the move. The music here is accessible and shows why he interested his contemporaries. The reason the Missa Grecorum ("Greek mass") is so called is unknown, but it is a near-perfect example of the cantus firmus mass, treating its unidentified, borrowed melody...
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