The profusion of choirs specializing in the music of the High Renaissance was one of the glories of the musical scene of the late 20th century. It is easy to forget, however, that these choirs built on the work of their predecessors, who themselves began with less than fully developed ideas of what some of the composers of the Renaissance were all about. The booklet for this 1981 recording, originally on Hyperion, reissued several times, and in 2010 re-released by the discriminating small American label Alto, was still ...
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The profusion of choirs specializing in the music of the High Renaissance was one of the glories of the musical scene of the late 20th century. It is easy to forget, however, that these choirs built on the work of their predecessors, who themselves began with less than fully developed ideas of what some of the composers of the Renaissance were all about. The booklet for this 1981 recording, originally on Hyperion, reissued several times, and in 2010 re-released by the discriminating small American label Alto, was still written at a time when it was necessary to point out that the elevation of Palestrina over other composers of the late 16th century was due to extramusical factors. Those booklet notes seem to have been scanned and reproduced without editing -- with hilarious results when annotator Mark Brown is made to remark that "Lassus chose not to louse the Venetian style." The performances themselves, however, hold up a good deal better, and the engineering is better still; this was an early...
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Add this copy of Lassus: Requiem & Music for Easter Sunday to cart. $6.19, very good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Alto.
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