Philippe Rogier, despite his name and Franco-Flemish origin, played a late hand in the Spanish Renaissance in the service of King Philip II of Spain. The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 wreaked a heavy toll on Rogier's survival rate, but a significant amount of his music remains, including 7 masses and 36 motets; nevertheless, his work is not recorded very frequently. David Trendell and the Choir of King's College, London, selects one surviving mass and four motets and combines them into the program that makes up Hyperion's ...
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Philippe Rogier, despite his name and Franco-Flemish origin, played a late hand in the Spanish Renaissance in the service of King Philip II of Spain. The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 wreaked a heavy toll on Rogier's survival rate, but a significant amount of his music remains, including 7 masses and 36 motets; nevertheless, his work is not recorded very frequently. David Trendell and the Choir of King's College, London, selects one surviving mass and four motets and combines them into the program that makes up Hyperion's Philippe Rogier: Missa Ego sum qui sum; Motets. On the first and last motets they are joined by the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble in motets that have additional parts for instruments. This is only the third time that a whole CD's contents have been given over to the music of Rogier.Recorded in the church of All Hallows, Gospel Oak in London, this Hyperion disc has a good sound and conveys reasonably good performances overall, though the first two tracks are less disciplined...
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