On the Hyperion disc Peerson: Latin Motets, Jeffrey Skidmore and the Ex Cathedra Consort perform, for the first time, musicologist Richard Rastall's new scholarly edition of the Latin Motets of late-Renaissance English composer Martin Peerson. These are rare works indeed -- Henry VIII had wiped out the Catholic Church in England in the previous century, and the faith was slow to return to England. It is not known why Peerson, who is best known for short keyboard character pieces such as The Fall of a Leafe, undertook these ...
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On the Hyperion disc Peerson: Latin Motets, Jeffrey Skidmore and the Ex Cathedra Consort perform, for the first time, musicologist Richard Rastall's new scholarly edition of the Latin Motets of late-Renaissance English composer Martin Peerson. These are rare works indeed -- Henry VIII had wiped out the Catholic Church in England in the previous century, and the faith was slow to return to England. It is not known why Peerson, who is best known for short keyboard character pieces such as The Fall of a Leafe, undertook these 15 settings of sacred texts in Latin. The surviving set of parts are lacking the top voice, so all of the missing parts are reconstructed by Rastall. For what it's worth, if any of the reconstructed material is apparent as such on listening, it was hard to catch it; Rastall's reconstructed voice seamlessly flows into the other parts.These are beautiful pieces and are surprising in their un-Italian-sounding "countenance Anglois." This is an earlier style that to which, at least on the...
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