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Orlandus Lassus, a.k.a. Orlande de Lassus or Orlando di Lasso, was, the textbooks say, one of the greatest composers of the late 16th century. However, for ordinary listeners, apart from a few pieces like the deliciously dark chanson La nuict froide et sombre, his greatness has always been a bit difficult to grasp. He wrote music, sacred and secular, in many genres and in many languages, and his art was sometimes buried in artifice and wit that aren't immediately apparent to modern listeners. So it is that this release from the small (nine singers here) choir Magnificat and director Philip Cave, specialized though it is, sheds valuable light on what is so special about Lassus. The album inaugurates a series of six that will cover the hundred Magnificat settings Lassus wrote. All are quite short, prefaced by a piece of plainchant, and many, like many masses of the century, use what is sometimes called the parody technique, whereby the Magnificat is based on a preexisting work, often a secular one. That work becomes part of the title of the Magnificat. The models are quite varied, by composers familiar and unknown, but sample the Magnificats based on pieces by Cipriano de Rore, one of the most sophisticated Italian madrigalists of the time. The adaptations are marvelously subtle; Lassus rarely quotes melodic material from the original directly, yet there is an unmistakable sense of the two pieces' relationship. Cave and his choir bring the right transparency to this music, and even if 100 of these works sounds like a lot, it seems that those who love Lassus will find deep fascination in this and future releases; this one landed on classical best-seller charts in early 2024.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Philippe Verdelot, Composer - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager - Ludovico Martelli, Lyricist
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Pietro Bembo, Lyricist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Nollet, Composer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Francesco Petrarca, Lyricist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Anselmo de Reulx, Composer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Cipriano De Rore, Composer - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Jacquet de Berchem, Composer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Francesco Petrarca, Lyricist - Cipriano De Rore, Composer - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Cristóbal De Morales, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager - Emilia Anguisciola, Lyricist
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
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Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Orazio Vecchi, Composer - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Francesco Petrarca, Lyricist - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Composer - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Alessandro Striggio, Composer - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Alessandro Striggio, Composer - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Cipriano De Rore, Composer - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Cipriano De Rore, Composer - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Francesco Petrarca, Lyricist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Orlando di Lasso, Composer - Philip Cave, Conductor, MainArtist - Magnificat, Ensemble, MainArtist - Philip Hobbs, Producer, SoundEngineer - Timothée van der Stegen, AAndRManager
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
Albumbeschreibung
Orlandus Lassus, a.k.a. Orlande de Lassus or Orlando di Lasso, was, the textbooks say, one of the greatest composers of the late 16th century. However, for ordinary listeners, apart from a few pieces like the deliciously dark chanson La nuict froide et sombre, his greatness has always been a bit difficult to grasp. He wrote music, sacred and secular, in many genres and in many languages, and his art was sometimes buried in artifice and wit that aren't immediately apparent to modern listeners. So it is that this release from the small (nine singers here) choir Magnificat and director Philip Cave, specialized though it is, sheds valuable light on what is so special about Lassus. The album inaugurates a series of six that will cover the hundred Magnificat settings Lassus wrote. All are quite short, prefaced by a piece of plainchant, and many, like many masses of the century, use what is sometimes called the parody technique, whereby the Magnificat is based on a preexisting work, often a secular one. That work becomes part of the title of the Magnificat. The models are quite varied, by composers familiar and unknown, but sample the Magnificats based on pieces by Cipriano de Rore, one of the most sophisticated Italian madrigalists of the time. The adaptations are marvelously subtle; Lassus rarely quotes melodic material from the original directly, yet there is an unmistakable sense of the two pieces' relationship. Cave and his choir bring the right transparency to this music, and even if 100 of these works sounds like a lot, it seems that those who love Lassus will find deep fascination in this and future releases; this one landed on classical best-seller charts in early 2024.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 28 track(s)
- Total length: 02:37:13
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Magnificat Philip Cave
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Linn Records
- Genre: Klassiek
2024 Outhere 2024 Linn Records
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