Luminis,vox - Roland De Lassus: Requiem - Music CD

$27.28

Luminis,vox - Roland De Lassus: Requiem - Music CD

Name: Luminis,vox - Roland De Lassus: Requiem - Music CD
Brand: AEC
SKU: RCR493.2
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Roland de Lassus composed more than eighty masses, of which only two are Requiems; it is not possible to link them to the funerals of any particular individuals.The four-part Missa pro defunctis was published in Paris in 1577. The library of an abbey in Augsburg, however, contains a transposed manuscript copy intended for an ensemble of male voices (tenors, baritones and basses); what is more, this manuscript copy includes a Dies Irae that does not appear in the Paris edition. The five-part Requiem was published in 1589, five years before Lassus's death. Here, Vox Luminis presents both compositions, highlighting the contrasting colours of the two vocal ensembles: the gravity of the four-part Requiem against the light of the five-part setting.