Morales: Mass for the Feast of St. Isidore of Seville

Morales: Mass for the Feast of St. Isidore of Seville

Morales: Mass for the Feast of St. Isidore of Seville

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Composer: Francisco Guerrero
Composer: Philippe Rogier
Composer: Antonio de Cabezon
Composer: Plainchant Chant
Composer: Cristobal de Morales
Composer: Nicolas Gombert
Composer: Gregorian Chant
Composer: Thomas de Santa Maria
Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Performer: Gabrieli Consort & Players
Performer: Gabrieli Consort
Performer: Timothy Roberts
Edition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown); German (Published)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-04-08
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:

Ecce sacerdos magnus, for 5 voices
Tiento del quinto ton for organ: Extract
In medio ecclesiae, introit
Missa 'Mille regretz': Kyrie
Missa 'Mille regretz': Gloria
Dominus vobiscum ... Deus, qui populo tuo, oratio
Tiento del quarto ton for organ: Extract
Lectio Epistolae beati Pauli Apostoli ad Timotheum (2 Tm. 4: 1-2, 6-8)
Dominus vobiscum ... Sequentia sancti Evangelii secundum Matthaeum (Mi. 5: 13-16)
Missa 'Mille regretz': Credo
Tiento del octavo ton for organ
O Doctor optime, motet for 6 voices
Per omnia saecula saeculorum ... Vere dignum et justum est
Missa 'Mille regretz': Sanctus
Per omnia saecula saeculorum ... Pater noster
Missa 'Mille regretz': Agnus Dei
Fidelis Servus
Dominus vobiscum ... Ut nobis, Domine
Ite missa est
Emendemus in melius, motet for 5 voices

Music reviews of Morales: Mass for the Feast of St. Isidore of Seville

Music Review: Renaissance polyphony at its most accessible
Rating: 5 Stars

The American musicologist Robert Stevenson once wrote that: "No Spanish composer of the sixteenth century was more lauded during his lifetime and for two hundred years after his death than Morales." Spanish contemporaries such as the music theorist Juan Bermudo (c.1510-c. 1565), and the composer Juan Vasquez (c.1510-c. 1560) proclaimed Christobal Morales (c.1500 - 1553) "la luz de España en la música" ("the light of Spain in music").

Morales wrote in the post-Josquin polyphonic style of composition introduced to Spain in its golden age by Penalosa. Morales was particularly heavily influenced by Josquin, and even his masses based upon plainsong make frequent references to him. As he was active in Rome for so much of his life, Morales was always regarded as a foreigner on his return to Spain, so that nationalistic Spanish musicologists have always tended to try to find tendencies in his music that supposedly epitomize his 'Spanish mysticism' rather than accepting his status as a major European artist of international standing as he deserves.

Morales was popular as a composer for a good two centuries after his death so that throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth century much of his music was played in recreational and domestic contexts in Spain in arragements from Morales's masses for vihuela, harp, or keyboard. Even today his attractiveness as a composer remains evident, so that if there were a single recording of a complete Renaissance polyphonic mass cycle to recommend to newcomers I would immediately choose this recording.

The Mass Mille Regretz is a parody mass based on the chanson Mille Regretz by Josquin and the beautiful chanson theme is quite obvious in every section of the mass cycle. Surely this must be one of the most beautiful melodies ever written in musical history, and the degree of literal repetition of the theme might have outstayed its welcome had it not been so lovely. By the same token, this very feature of the writing makes it extremely wide-ranging in its appeal and many who find Renaissance polyphony daunting to listen to should try this recording. As usual, Paul McCreesh performs things in liturgical context intermixed with a collection of often fascinating instrumental music.

The playing and singing is wonderful throughout and the recording allows the resonance of a church acoustic to come through without excessively compromising detail. In the guise of this new issue at a lower price this recording is a real steal that belongs in every good music collection.

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