Day 292
Lassus: Missa Super Triste depart
Christ Church cathedral choir
Stephen Cleobury
This is a superb piece . I think that I must have heard some music by Lassus as part of the University music course but I don’t have any particular memories. This is fully mature renaissance music which has all of the richness of complex polyphony. But what was fascinating was the foreshadowing at times of later music - there were distinct pre-echos of the poly-choral music of the Gabrielli school. This was by no means crude juxtaposition: the chordal passages emerged naturally out of the textures. All told there was completely mastery of the material: it demonstrated just why Lassus was such a venerated composer in his own lifetime and has remained centuries later one of the towering figures of renaissance music.
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