Renaissance of the Spirit: the music of Orlando di Lasso and his contemporaries

Renaissance of the Spirit: the music of Orlando di Lasso and his contemporaries

Renaissance of the Spirit: the music of Orlando di Lasso and his contemporaries
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Composer: Johannes Ciconia
Composer: Clemens non Papa
Composer: Guillaume Dufay
Composer: Antoine de Fevin
Composer: Nicolas Gombert
Composer: Orlande de Lassus
Composer: Philippe de Monte
Composer: Philippe Rogier
Composer: Etienne du Tertre
Composer: Adrian Willaert
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-05-23
Music Label: Telarc
Soundtracks:
  1. Passan Vostri Triomphi
  2. Lauda Anima Mea
  3. Recorder Piece No. 18
  4. Tibi, Christe, Splendor Patris
  5. Pavane And Gaillarde
  6. Ave Maria
  7. S'io Fusse Ciaul'et Tu Lo Campanile
  8. Respice In Me
  9. Recorder Piece No. 10
  10. Pater Noster - Ave Maria
  11. Tutto Lo Di Mi Dici, 'Canta, Canta'
  12. Ave Maria
  13. Petrarca 10, I Vo Piangendo
  14. Bona Est Oratio Cum Ieiunio
  15. Dapoi Che Sotto 'I Ciel Cosa Non Vidi
  16. Peccavi
  17. Par Ch'hai Lasciato De Non T'Affaciare
  18. Recorder Piece No. 20
  19. Credo
  20. Benedictus Dominus Deus
  21. Omnia Tempus Habent

Music reviews of Renaissance of the Spirit: the music of Orlando di Lasso and his contemporaries

Music Review: Stylish and perfectly historically aware performances in gorgeous sound
Rating: 5 Stars

Erik van Nevel is a performing musician who also teaches choral conducting, chamber music and early music performance practice at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven. He conducts workshops and courses and master classes for choral and ensemble singers, as well as conductors, focusing both on general choral and conducting technique and on more specific performance practices.

There was a period when performances of Renaissance works performed on instruments or with instrumental doubling of vocal parts came to be frowed upon in preference to a capella performances. Around the time this recording was released things had come full circle and both approaches came to be embraced. Erik van Nevel is clearly a scholar fully aware of the latest thoughts in these matters and the listener can rest assured that in matters of performance practice he knows perfectly well what he is doing. The suggestions of ignorance from the previous reviewer should be turned instead on the reviewer himself.

Recordings by Erik van Nevel tend to be terribly difficult to get a hold of, even though he is as good as or better than many of other better known performers in the field of Renaissance polyphony. So this recording should be heartily welcomed by all lovers of Renaissance music. The selection of music here is all wonderfully chosen to illustrate the musical tendencies amongst Lassus' contemporaries, although the much earlier composers Févan, Dufay and Ciconia also make something of a surprise appearance too. So even the slightly hodge podge anthological nature of the CD fails to detract from the fact that most of these works are otherwise unobtainable and above all immensely rewarding to listen to. Particularly noteworthy are the 'Respice in me' by Rogier, the Gombert 'Ave maria' and the de Monte 'Bona est oratio cum ieiunio' just to name a couple of works.

Given that van Nevel's performances can be quite revelatory, he really does deserve to be recorded much more often than he is. And when he has been recorded it has always been in boxy limited sound, so the spectacular audiophile recording he receives here is an embarrassment of riches. A DSD processing system was used along with the usual expertise of the Telarc recording team. The sound-staging is stunning, with wonderful detail, and the typical DSD refinements in sound. It is like taking the cotton wool out of your ears. This may be the most sumptuously recorded Renaissance music CD available today.

Ivan Moody on Goldberg early music magazine had this to say:

"This is a brilliantly accomplished recording in which a smaller group of players from I Fiamminghi shows a real grasp of the idiom of this repertoire. Currende sing with passion and conviction, and are not afraid to allow the darker, meditative aspect of much of this music come out (try Clemens's Ave Maria, for example, or de Monte's Bona est oratio cum ieiunio, for example, where the long-breathed lines of this penitential work are really shaped so that the ensuing harmonic flow seems effortless). I Fiamminghi impress by their slick rhythmic phrasing, their unanimity and their smoothness of sound: the sensation on hearing the very first chord of the first track (an instrumental rendition of Lassus' Passan vostri triomphi) is that one has walked into a velvet cathedral of sound."

Telarc - please can we have more!
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