La Grande Chapelle, Albert Recasens - Alonso Lobo: Misas Prudentes Virgines & Beata Dei genitrix (2013)

Tracklist

01. Motete a 5, Prudentes Virgines
02. Misa, Prudentes Virgines: I. Kyrie
03. Misa, Prudentes Virgines: II. Gloria
04. Misa, Prudentes Virgines: III. Credo
05. Misa, Prudentes Virgines: IV. Sanctus
06. Misa, Prudentes Virgines: V. Benedictus
07. Misa, Prudentes Virgines: VI. Agnus Dei
08. Motete a 6, Beata Dei genitrix
09. Misa, Beata Dei genitrix: I. Kyrie
10. Misa, Beata Dei genitrix: II. Gloria
11. Misa, Beata Dei genitrix: III. Credo
12. Misa, Beata Dei genitrix: IV. Sanctus
13. Misa, Beata Dei genitrix: V. Benedictus
14. Misa, Beata Dei genitrix: VI. Agnus Dei



Alonso Lobo was recognised by his contemporaries and later generations as one of the great masters of Spanish polyphony. Favourite disciple of and assistant to Francisco Guerrero in Seville, Lobo was the only musician of the time to serve as chapel master at both Seville and Toledo cathedrals, which were at the top of the Spanish ecclesiastical system. His Liber primus missarum (1602) was widely circulated in Spain and the New World. Of the six masses included in the original printed edition, La Grande Chapelle has chosen the Prudentes virgines and Beata Dei genitrix masses, neither of which is available in a modern edition. Using Guerrero’s motets of the same name as a starting point, Lobo combines, with unequalled mastery, erudite imitative techniques such as enigmatic canons with daring harmonic and expressive flourishes that have drawn comparisons with the work of El Greco, his exact contemporary in Toledo.

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