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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Sanctum Est Verum LumenMulti-Part Music for Choir
National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Mike Brewer Tallis's monumental Spem in alium is one of the greatest glories of Western polyphony, and its preechoes and aftershocks reverberate through all the other pieces on this disc.The massed voices of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, in their 25th anniversary year, dazzle in this programme of choral jewels from the 15th and 16th centuries, interspersed with virtuoso tributes from three leading contemporary composers, including Gabriel Jackson's own 40-part motet. | 
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| |  | Entremesses del Siglio de OroMusic by composers involved in the theatre of Félix Lope de Vega (1562-1635).
Montserrat Figueras (canto) Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall (conductor) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Guerrero - Canciones y Villanescas Espirituales Volume 3
Musica Ficta & Ensemble Fonttegara, Raul Mallavibarrena (director) The third release in this series from Enchiriadis of the complete works of Francisco Guerrero first published in Venice in 1589 under the name “Canciones y Villanescas Espirituales.” Following the high critical and public acclaim established with Volumes 1 & 2 this release, featuring 22 more of Guerrero’s sacred and secular vocal compositions, promises to be every bit as stimulating and revealing. (Also available Vol 1 EN2014 & Vol 2 EN2018) |
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| |  | Guerrero - Missa Sancta et immaculata
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O' Donnell (The Master of Music) Guerrero, Victoria and Morales together comprise the triumvirate at the pinnacle of the Spanish Renaissance, and of these Guerrero was without doubt the most highly respected in his time. Missa Sancta et immaculata comes from his first published collection of Masses (1566) and takes its theme from Morales’s motet Sancta et immaculata virginitas (‘Holy and immaculate virginity’). Guerrero expands the original four-part texture to include a second soprano line, and the resultant shimmering texture marks this out to be a truly remarkable Mass. This is its first recording. Two motets, a Magnificat setting, and three Vesper hymns complete this recording, the latter works beginning a long-overdue exploration of the wealth of Hispanic melody, a unique treasury in the chant repertoire. Lauda mater ecclesia is an extraordinary work setting a—somewhat smutty—text (now removed from the liturgy) in honour of Mary Magdalen. “Exhilarating, full of variety, and spiritually uplifting. Westminster Cathedral Choir are on their very best form, incisive and thrilling. Very highly recommended” Gramophone Magazine “The music and performances on this disc defy superlatives—just go out and buy it!” Early Music Today “Spellbinding: a really magnificent achievement” Goldberg |
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| |  | Canticum CanticorumSpanish polyphonic settings from the Song of Songs
Orchestra of the Renaissance, Richard Cheetham (director) & Michael Noone (guest conductor) |
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| |  | El siglo de OroSpanish Sacred Music of the Renaissance
London Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble & Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Guerrero - Missa Super flumina BabylonisRecorded at Iglesia de San Miguel, Cuenca (Spain), in June 2006
Ensemble Plus Ultra, Schola Antiqua & His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, Michael Noone Following the revelatory release a couple of years ago of Morales en Toledo [Glossa GCD922001] it is a great
pleasure to welcome back Michael Noone and Ensemble Plus Ultra to Glossa for a further demonstration of
Noone's remarkable knack of uniting unknown music from recognised masters in superb performances
underpinned by exemplary scholarship.Through his ongoing research in the Cathedral Archives of Toledo,
Noone has discovered a group of six hymns by Francisco Guerrero, written when he was apprenticed to
Morales, recording these in the church of San Miguel in Cuenca along with the previously-unrecorded Missa
Super flumina Babylonis.
For this new Guerrero recording Noone has added the superlative 8-voice antiphon Regina cæli and the motet
Ave virgo sanctissima in performances which provide convincing proof of the highly sophisticated nature of
polyphony from the Spanish Renaissance.The conductor, along with fellow researcher Graeme Skinner,
contributes an essay on the works recorded here. "Some of this music was rescued from parchment pages stuck together by water damage. But there's nothing watery about the intricate polyphony of Guerrero, a master of 16th-century Spanish church music, or the vocal powers of Michael Noone's group." The Times “…an enjoyable glimpse at some glittering treasures of the Golden Age of Spanish music.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2008 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | The Voice of my Beloved
Lincoln College Chapel Choir, Paul Wingfield and Rebecca Taylor The Lincoln College Chapel Choir, under the direction of Paul Wingfield and Rebecca Taylor, sing various
settings from “The Song of Songs” (from the book of Soloman), from the Renaissance to the present day. | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Guerrero - Canciones y Villanescas Espirituales Volume 2Part Songs
Musica Ficta & Ensemble Fontegara, Raul Mallavibarren Guerrero is the only composer of the ‘Spanish Golden Age’ to gather together his works under the title of
‘Villanescas’. This is simply a group of songs. It has been written that “although Guerrero’s Masses,
Magnificats and motets are the equal but not superior to those of Morales and Victoria in terms of their quality
and consistency, his villanescas of 1589 reveal his unquestionable superiority over any other Iberian composer
of the XVIth century when it came to setting vernacular poetry to music.” These are irresistible performances of
these beautiful part-songs. | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Reges TerraeMusic from the Time of Emperor Charles V
During the first half of the sixteenth century, there was no greater a ruler than the Emperor Charles V, whose court was lavishly supplied with music by composers of high talent. Charles had a personal enthusiasm for music, and his chapel was more or less in constant attendance on his travels. It is small wonder, then, that a number of the greatest composers of the age had some connection with him, including the Franco-Flemish composers Manchicourt, Cristóbal de Morales and Nicolas Gombert. Complementing these composers are the perhaps less well-known Guerrero and Jacobus Clemens non Papa. As members of the chapel choir of Charles V, most of these composers travelled the Empire widely, and were praised as among the outstanding masters of their time. Only Francisco Guerrero worked exclusively in Spain. To us the least well known of the Spanish composers of the period, and consequently the most underrated, he was the most admired Spanish musician of the second half of the sixteenth century, known for his Latin liturgical works. Manchicourt composed some of the most glorious music of the time, this CD including the well-known early motet O Virgo virginum along with the premiere recording of the Agnus Dei from the Missa Reges terrae. De Morales is widely recognised as the most important figure in early sixteenth-century Spanish music, garnering frequent praise from his contemporaries and ranking with Palestrina in his mastery of polyphony. Nordic Voices here present two of his sumptuous and richly varied motets. "Intonation? Impeccable. Ensemble? Unfailing precision in phrasing, dynamics, color – everything finely tuned a
succession of works ever-changing in style and expressive meaning." Washington Post on Nordic Voices | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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