Alonso Lobo: Misas 'Prudentes Virgines' & Beata Dei Genitrix

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Recording quality and performers' articulation are as crisp and clear as they are warm. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 25th Nov 2013
Catalogue No: LAU013
Label: Lauda
Length: 60 minutes

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Guerrero, Francisco: Motete a 5, Prudentes Virgines

Work length4:58

Herman Stinders (soloist)
Coro La Grande Chapelle
Albert Recasens

Lobo, A: Misa, Prudentes Virgines

Work length26:13

Herman Stinders (soloist)
Coro La Grande Chapelle
Albert Recasens

I. Kyrie

Track length3:23

II. Gloria

Track length5:06

III. Credo

Track length7:21

IV. Sanctus

Track length3:00

V. Benedictus

Track length2:37

VI. Agnus Dei

Track length4:46

Guerrero, Francisco: Motete a 6, Beata Dei genitrix

Work length6:02

Herman Stinders (soloist)
Coro La Grande Chapelle
Albert Recasens

Lobo, A: Misa, Beata Dei genitrix

Work length23:35

Herman Stinders (soloist)
Coro La Grande Chapelle
Albert Recasens

I. Kyrie

Track length3:37

II. Gloria

Track length5:07

III. Credo

Track length7:31

IV. Sanctus

Track length2:40

V. Benedictus

Track length2:24

VI. Agnus Dei

Track length2:16

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Two masses from the Liber primus missarum (1602) for use in Toledo Cathedral at the time of El Greco 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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February 2014

Recording quality and performers' articulation are as crisp and clear as they are warm.

March 2014

[Lobo] allows himself the odd technical party-piece but weaves it so unobtrusively into the musical fabric that he coudl hardly have been accused of showing off: a composer calmly conscious of his worth, one imagines.

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