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Germany's Die Singphoniker is known as a counterpart to The King's Singers, and like that group they have made perhaps their strongest commercial impact with crossover material. Again like The King's Singers, though, they have made superb recordings of Renaissance material in a manner undiluted by contact with pop. With this album you get crossover music of a sort from the 16th century: there are six Magnificat settings by Orlando di Lasso that are based not on plainchant but on preexisting secular songs, in the manner of a so-called "parody" mass. These differ from masses in that the source material is entirely evident and is allowed to flavor the Magnificat strongly, with fascinating results; in a mass the secular material may be hidden behind a layer of intellectual artifice. Sample any of the pairs for the flavor of this inexplicably neglected music, perhaps the Magnificat Secundi Toni: Il est jour, elegantly troping a one-minute chanson by Claudin de Sermisy. The six members of Die Singphoniker have an expert vocal blend, but what's more important is that they capture the sense of fun in this music, something that would've been apparent to an audience of Lasso's time but difficult to recapture at a distance of four centuries. Highly recommended.
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Da le belle contrade à 5 (Cipriano de Rore)
Die Singphoniker, Ensemble - Anonymous, Lyricist - Cipriano de Rore, Composer
(C) 2015 CPO (P) 2015 CPO
Magnificat sexti toni "Dalle belle contrade" (Orlande de Lassus)
Die Singphoniker, Ensemble - Anonymous, Lyricist - Orlando di Lasso, Composer
(C) 2015 CPO (P) 2015 CPO
O s'io potessi donna à 4 (Jacquet de Berchem)
Die Singphoniker, Ensemble - Anonymous, Lyricist - Jacquet de Berchem, Composer
(C) 2015 CPO (P) 2015 CPO
Magnificat secundi toni "O s'io potessi" (Orlande de Lassus)
Johannes Euler, Performer - Die Singphoniker, Ensemble - Anonymous, Lyricist - Orlando di Lasso, Composer
(C) 2015 CPO (P) 2015 CPO
Praeter rerum seriem à 6 (Josquin des Prés)
Die Singphoniker, Ensemble - Anonymous, Lyricist - Josquin Des Prez, Composer
(C) 2015 CPO (P) 2015 CPO
Magnificat secundi toni "Praeter rerum seriem" (Orlande de Lassus)
Die Singphoniker, Ensemble - Anonymous, Lyricist - Orlando di Lasso, Composer
(C) 2015 CPO (P) 2015 CPO
Il est jour à 4 (Claudin de Sermisy)
Die Singphoniker, Ensemble - Anonymous, Lyricist - Claudin de Sermisy, Composer
(C) 2015 CPO (P) 2015 CPO
Magnificat secundi toni "Il est jour" (Orlande de Lassus)
Die Singphoniker, Ensemble - Unknown Artist, Lyricist, Performer - Orlando di Lasso, Composer
(C) 2015 CPO (P) 2015 CPO
S'io credessi per morte essere scarco à 4 (Anselmo de Reulx)
Die Singphoniker, Ensemble - Anonymous, Lyricist - Anselmo de Reulx, Composer
(C) 2015 CPO (P) 2015 CPO
Magnificat tertii toni "S'io credessi per morte" (Orlande de Lassus)
Die Singphoniker, Ensemble - Unknown Artist, Lyricist, Performer - Orlando di Lasso, Composer
(C) 2015 CPO (P) 2015 CPO
Ultimi miei sospiri à 6 (Philippe Verdelot)
Die Singphoniker, Ensemble - Philippe Verdelot, Composer - Lodovico Martelli, Lyricist
(C) 2015 CPO (P) 2015 CPO
Magnificat secundi toni "Ultimi miei sospiri" (Orlande de Lassus)
Die Singphoniker, Ensemble - Anonymous, Lyricist - Orlando di Lasso, Composer
(C) 2015 CPO (P) 2015 CPO
Album review
Germany's Die Singphoniker is known as a counterpart to The King's Singers, and like that group they have made perhaps their strongest commercial impact with crossover material. Again like The King's Singers, though, they have made superb recordings of Renaissance material in a manner undiluted by contact with pop. With this album you get crossover music of a sort from the 16th century: there are six Magnificat settings by Orlando di Lasso that are based not on plainchant but on preexisting secular songs, in the manner of a so-called "parody" mass. These differ from masses in that the source material is entirely evident and is allowed to flavor the Magnificat strongly, with fascinating results; in a mass the secular material may be hidden behind a layer of intellectual artifice. Sample any of the pairs for the flavor of this inexplicably neglected music, perhaps the Magnificat Secundi Toni: Il est jour, elegantly troping a one-minute chanson by Claudin de Sermisy. The six members of Die Singphoniker have an expert vocal blend, but what's more important is that they capture the sense of fun in this music, something that would've been apparent to an audience of Lasso's time but difficult to recapture at a distance of four centuries. Highly recommended.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 01:04:18
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Die Singphoniker Johannes Euler Unknown Artist
- Composer: Philippe Verdelot
- Label: CPO
- Genre: Classical
(C) 2015 CPO (P) 2015 CPO
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