Orlando di Lasso: Prophetiae Sibyllarum
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Composer: Orlande de LassusPerformer: Konrad Junghanel
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2002-07-19
Music Label: Deutsche Harm Mundi
Soundtracks:
- Prophetiae Sibyllarum
- O Foible Esprit
- La Nuict Froide Et Sombre
- Amour, Donne Moy Payx Ou Treve
- La Terre Les Eaux Va Beuvant
- Rendz-Moy Mon Coeur
- J'ay De Vous Voir
- Comme Un Qui Prend Une Couppe
- Bon Jour, Mon Coeur
- J'espere Et Crain
- Standomi Un Giorno
- I' Vo Piangendo
- Mia Benigna Fortuna
- Crudele, Acerba
- La Vita Fugge
- Soleasi Ne Mio Cor
Music reviews of Orlando di Lasso: Prophetiae Sibyllarum
Music Review: Roland de Lassus, Orlando di Lasso, a Rose by Any Name!
Rating: 5 Stars
The most international of composers, Roland de Lassus (1532-1594) is to 16th Century muisic like the waist of an hourglass; all the sounds of Flanders, France, Italy, and Germany of the generation before flow into him, and all the sounds of the the coming generation, especially the great Italian madrigalists, flow out of him. His synthesis is as polyglot as his languages; he was fluent in Latin, French, Italian, and German, and the first three languages are represented on this CD. (I have to give the CD seven stars, so that I can deduct two for not including texts in the not booklet!) But Lassus is the sort of composer whose music can't be improved by addition or subtraction; it is absolutely correct in itself, so polished in its style that later madrigals can't possibly sound more advanced, only different.
One of the wonderments of the High Renaissance was the fusion of pagan roman iconography and literature with Christianity. The Latin hexameters of the so-called Sybilline books are a weird mixture of pagan and christian prophecies. Lassus was inspired by the paintings of the Four Sybils by Raffaelo in the Church of santa Maria della Pace in Rome to compose his four-part setting of the Latin texts as an allusion to the "tetrachord" principles of musical antiquity. In his position as musical lynchpin of the Bavarian coourt in Munich, by the way, Lassus was perhaps the first self-conscious reviver of "early music" - that is, of music from the two or three generations of composers before himself. He carefully staged concerts of motets and masses by Brumel, Josquin, and others defunct, and the scores he had copied for his singers are the only sources for such music as Brumel's 12-voice mass Et Ecce Terrae Moto.
The six madrigals using texts in Italian by Petrarch and the nine short French chansons on this CD, all in five parts, are a fine sample of the hundreds of such pieces that Lassus composed, as effortlessly as breathing. And the five singers of Cantus Coelln - Johanna Koslowsky, Graham Pushee, Gerd Turk, Wifried Jochens, and Stephan Schreckenberger - sing them with the appropriate graceful effortlessness. Konrad Junghaenel scatters the phrases of his lute accompaniment among their voices like cherry blossom petals on a manicured lawn of tunefulness. This performance is as elegant as any I've ever heard of Lassus, or from Cantus Coelln.
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