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ROLAND DE LASSUS Psalmi Davidis pœnitentiales (Penitential Psalms) Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
2h20
Digital
HMY2921831.32
Excerpt:
A total work of art.
When his Penitential Psalms were published in Munich in 1584, Orlande de Lassus was the most famous composer in Europe. The work had been composed 25 years earlier, but it did not show its age in the slightest. And, four centuries later, this collection still rouses the admiration of musicologists and the astonishment of performers and listeners, for the pure musical beauty of ‘abstract’ polyphony is here matchlessly combined with the expressive possibilities of speech.
This title was released for the first time in 2006.
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- Collegium Vocale Gent
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