El Leon de Oro / Peter Phillips
Release Date: 05 April 2024
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571284392
Description
A collection of works representative of a school of Flemish composers living in Madrid towards the end of the Renaissance and all employed by Philip II of Spain, who held composers from the Low Countries in particularly high regard.
La Hèle's Mass, here receiving its first complete recording, is a major discovery.
"From Machincourt's ravishingly luminous Osculatur me to the mellow soundworld of Payen's Virgo prudentissima, revelations abound" – BBC Music Magazine ****
"The great strength of this recording is the transparency of its textures, which allows the parts to come through individually while preserving the monumentality that such a scoring obviously motivates – all the more remarkable given the size of the choir, which is large by modern standards in this repertoire (nearly 40-strong)" – Gramophone
"The performances by the properly substantial (34-voice) ensemble El León de Oro is close to an English cathedral style, with a clean, perfectly blended, rather light sound even in the more somber low-range pieces. […] Renaissance buffs and general listeners alike will find worthwhile new material on this album" – AllMusic
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"The group's honourary director is Peter Phillips and something of the silvery polish of his ensemble The Tallis Scholars seems to have rubbed off here." - BBC Music Magazine
"His Missa Praeter Rerum Seriem (which is based on a motet by Josquin and receives its first complete recording on this album) is followed here by a selection of motets by other Flemish composers" – Presto Music
Tracklisting
Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nir Kabaretti
The Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice
Steven Isserlis
The Nash Ensemble
MultiPiano Ensemble, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Ivor Bolton
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Marc-Andre Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Gothic Voices / Christopher Page
Polina Pastirchak, Anke Vondung, Sungmin Song, Milan Siljanov, Chorwerk Ruhr, Bochumer Symphoniker,
Kammerchor Stuttgart; Barockorchester Stuttgart; Frieder Bernius; Hannah Morrison; Franziska Bobe;
Choralchor der St. Johannis-Kantorei Rostock
Capella Daleminzia, Capella Vocale Waldheim, Rene Michael Roder
Gewandhaus Children's Choir, Frank-Steffen Elster, Gewandhaus Youth Choir, Gewandhaus Choir, Gregor
Aukso - Chamber Orchestra Of The City Of Tychy, Camerata Silesia Katowice City Singers' Ensemble, Marek Mos
Herbert von Karajan; The Philharmonia Orchestra; Berliner Philharmoniker
Soloists, Netherlands Chamber Choir, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen
