Lassus Lagrime di San Pietro
Lassus’s final masterpiece in a reading that is full of insight
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Composer or Director: Orlande de Lassus
Genre:
Vocal
Label: ATMA
Magazine Review Date: 1/2011
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
Catalogue Number: ACD22509

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Lagrime di San Pietro ... con un mottetto nel fine |
Orlande de Lassus, Composer
Christopher Jackson, Conductor Orlande de Lassus, Composer Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal |
Author: Fabrice Fitch
Jackson’s singers keep the music moving, while remaining attentive to the significance of the merest details, and the final motet has an impressive, detached serenity. They have the voices to sustain prolonged and intense scrutiny (the 21 movements take up the whole disc), the only qualification being that the first alto part might better have been given to a high tenor rather than the two female altos, who are perhaps less successful than the others at projecting their part because of its lowish range. The recorded sound is good but two audible glitches have gone uncorrected (the piece’s third beat is shortened by half, and a misreading at 0'32" of track seven vitiates a key dissonance); nevertheless, there is much to admire here.
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