Lassus: Masses for Five Voices; Infelix ego
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Composer: Orlande de LassusConductor: Jeremy Summerly
Performer: Oxford Camerata
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-06-28
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Missa Entre Vous Filles: Kyrie
- Missa Entre Vous Filles: Gloria
- Missa Entre Vous Filles: Credo
- Missa Entre Vous Filles: Sanctus
- Missa Entre Vous Filles: Agnus Dei
- Infelix Ego
- Missa Susanne un jour: Kyrie
- Missa Susanne un jour: Gloria
- Missa Susanne un jour: Credo
- Missa Susanne un jour: Sanctus
- Missa Susanne un jour: Agnus Dei
Music reviews of Lassus: Masses for Five Voices; Infelix ego
Music Review: Tempo and pitch
Rating: 4 Stars
Considering the fact that this is probably the only recording of these two Masses, I shouldn't complain, however, I do have a few little quibbles.
Firstly the tempi adopted in the Missa entre vous filles are a little slow in places. The first Kyrie eleison is virtually a contrafactum of the chanson and I tend to think that the tactus should be virtually the same as the chanson and it should "rollick" along a wee bit faster. The work was iconoclastic and a major violation of the edicts of the Council of Trent and I think Lassus would have liked the listeners to know EXACTLY where the music was coming from. Lassus didn't hide the secular song away as a cantus firmus sung by the tenors, wedged between the contratenors and basso sings, rather the original chanson provides the very structure of most of the movements of the Mass. As I suggested, Lassus seems to have wanted to make sure the congregation knew what they were hearing.
I found the Tempi in the second Mass also a trifle slow, at times, too.
The interpretation, sung a little higher than a' = 440 Hz, is a little too polite for my tastes. The Oxford Camerata are usually very good in Renaissance repertoire, but this performance is just a little too safe and timid. The Oxford Camerata is a modern style SATB choir and the upward transposition probably helped the ladies of the vocal ensemble. The score really would fit an ATTTB ensemble quite well - falsettists on the cantus line, "tenorini" (using some head voice and/or falsetto on the altus line) and tenors and basses on the lower lines. Pro Cantione Antiqua would have done a marvellous job in these works - perhaps they recorded them? Ensemble Cl?ment Janequin would also be good in this repertoire.
No instruments are used in the Oxford Camerata recording, even though a basic organ accompaniment would have been nice and even stylistically appropriate. Lassus used cornetts and trombones in such works - a mute cornett, four trombones and a positive organ playing "colla parte" with the voices in the Missa entre vous filles would sound marvellous.
The notes in the CD are a little bit inadequate, as others have mentioned.
However, until other recordings of these works are made, the Oxford Camerata's recording fills a need.
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