Helios is the imprint reserved by Hyperion for the purpose of reducing the price of older catalog items that have either run out of stock or have gone stale at full price. The great benefit of the Helios label is that it brings into the realm of general affordability recordings of excellence that even diligent fans of the label may have missed the first time around. In this instance, the Westminster Cathedral Choir under James O'Donnell and the period instrument wind group His Majesty's Sagbutts & Cornetts present a winning ...
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Helios is the imprint reserved by Hyperion for the purpose of reducing the price of older catalog items that have either run out of stock or have gone stale at full price. The great benefit of the Helios label is that it brings into the realm of general affordability recordings of excellence that even diligent fans of the label may have missed the first time around. In this instance, the Westminster Cathedral Choir under James O'Donnell and the period instrument wind group His Majesty's Sagbutts & Cornetts present a winning realization of Lassus' Missa Bell' Amfitrit'altera as it might have been performed in Bavaria at the beginning of the seventeenth century.This particular Lassus mass has been recorded a few more times than most others have, and by good choirs. What sets the Westminster Cathedral Choir recording apart from the rest is the contextualization and liturgical placement of the work, fashioned after a pre-Vatican II service for the Feast Day of a martyr-saint. To fill in the holes,...
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