FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY Motets & Psalms La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe

“What seems to me to be Mendelssohn’s principal quality is his crystalline clarity. (…) It makes him one of the great composers of religious music. In the direct line of the great predecessors he admired so much, it made it possible for him to efface himself before the divine word and to set it to music with all necessary humility. This is what constitutes the force of the music on this recording.” – Philippe Herreweghe