Lassus: The Alchemist Volume 2

Desprez, Josquin, Lasso, Orlando di, różni kompozytorzy, Wert, Giaches de

Magnificat

CKD 760

On this, the second volume of Magnificat’s three-part project ‘Lassus: The Alchemist’, the ensemble explores the composer’s Magnificats based on motets. It is remarkable that, of Lassus’s thirty-five Magnificats based on polyphonic models, only eight draw musical inspiration from motets. But if these Magnificats are relatively few in number, their musical quality and impact are outsized. Whether in Praeter rerum seriem, where he expands Josquin’s motet into a formidable 250-bar Magnificat, or Aurora lucis rutilat, where he transforms his own Eastertide motet into a jubilant musical celebration, these works exemplify some of Lassus’s finest compositional achievements. Inspired by the lavish musical resources of the ducal chapel in Munich, where Lassus worked from 1557 until his death in 1594, this album brings together voices and instruments in diverse combinations, enhancing the richness and variety of the scoring.

Works:

•Orlando di Lasso: Magnificat Praeter rerum seriem
•Orlando di Lasso: Omnis enim homo
•Orlando di Lasso: Magnificat Omnis enim homo
•Orlando di Lasso: Memor esto verbi tui
•Orlando di Lasso: Magnificat Memor esto verbi tui
•Orlando di Lasso: Recordare Jesu pie
•Orlando di Lasso: Magnificat Recordare Jesu pie
•Orlando di Lasso: Magnificat Benedicta es, caelorum regina
•Orlando di Lasso: Magnificat Omnis homo primum;
•Orlando di Lasso: Deus in adiutorium meum
•Orlando di Lasso: Magnificat Deus in adiutorium meum
•Orlando di Lasso: Aurora lucis rutilat
•Orlando di Lasso: Magnificat Aurora lucis rutilat
• Josquin Desprez: Praeter rerum seriem
• Josquin Desprez: Benedicta es, caelorum regina
• Giaches de Wert: Omnis homo primum

CD x 2

Linn

6.06.2025

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