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Reviewer: Charles Brewer

This new release includes two major works by Lassus, the Mass on the spiritual chanson ‘Susanne un jour’ and the Magnificat on Cipriano de Rore’s madrigal ‘Ancor che col partire’, and eight motets with texts from the Song of Songs. Most of the motets are performed by a few singers with instrumentalists from the Clematis ensemble, though the eight-voice ‘Osculetur me osculo’ is sung a cappella by 13 singers. For the Magnificat and Mass Alarcon uses 16 singers with a positiv organ as a colla parte accompaniment. In either configuration, the singers blend well and Alarcon shapes the rise and fall of the polyphonic parts with great sensitivity.


The recording was made in the Saint-Sebastien Church in Stavelot, and the ambiance has just enough reverberation so that the clarity of Lassus’s writing is not compromised. I prefer this new recording of the Mass to the earlier release by the Oxford Camerata (Mar/Apr 1995) which has significantly slower tempos.



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