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    Ensemble Cantus figuratus, Dominique Vellard - Pedro de Escobar: Missa in Granada c. 1520 (2003)

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    Date: 11 May 2023 17:40:20
    Ensemble Cantus figuratus, Dominique Vellard - Pedro de Escobar: Missa in Granada c. 1520 (2003)


    Ensemble Cantus figuratus, Dominique Vellard - Pedro de Escobar: Missa in Granada c. 1520 (2003)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 55:59 | 289 MB
    Genre: Classical, Sacred | Label: Christophorus | Catalog: CHR 77263

    Pedro de Escobar (c. 1465-c.1535) was a composer of the same renaissance generation as Josquin, Isaac, Mouton and De La Rue. He was born in Porto, Portugal but was of Castilian ancestry; his work was in great demand in his time and he spent part of his working life in Spain, much of this in the service of the Catholic Queen Isabella I. His best-known works today are a Requiem Mass (recorded twice so far), a Magnificat setting and a handful of motets, but this present CD brings us the first recording of a complete ordinary Mass setting, simply titled ‘Missa 4v.’

    It is a most beautiful and impressive work, and it’s also well suited to the ‘reconstruction’ procedure adopted for this recording titled ‘Missa in Granada c. 1520’. The performance begins with a motet by Escobar’s Spanish contemporary Francisco de Peñalosa who also supplies two further motets which, alternating with passages of Gregorian chant, are interspersed between the movements of Escobar’s Mass. The works are sung by the Ensemble Cantus Figuratus, an excellent and stylish group of twelve voices (female sopranos, male altos, tenors and basses), accompanied at times by a small consort of period wind instruments from the equally fine ensemble Les Haulz et les Bas: shawm, bombarde, slide trumpet and trombone. Their director, Dominique Vellard, is an extremely able and experienced early-music practitioner, and throughout the programme he draws superb and inspired performances from his ensemble.

    The Kyrie (track 3) introduces us to the lovely texture of Escobar’s Mass setting, its distinctive, sinuous cantus firmus melody beautifully harmonised, and discreetly accompanied here by the ‘alta capella’ instruments. The following Gloria (4) and Credo (8) are sung without instrumental support and the vocal ensemble deliver them superbly, with great feeling for renaissance style, beautifully phrased and paced under Vellard’s inspired direction. Especially fine, I thought, are the passages where scoring is reduced to two and three voices, enhancing both beauty and textural variety with more than a hint of Josquin about it; this is simply lovely music, splendidly performed.

    In fact, if anything, Escobar’s Mass seems to get better as it goes along. The Sanctus (11), bringing back the alta capella, is an absolutely lovely movement; but this, in turn, is topped by a sumptuous Agnus Dei (13) with a final section in 5 voices. In this performance it’s the instruments that play the first verse, producing gorgeous, incisive wind consort tones which reminded me of the marvellous instrumental pieces played by the Gabrieli Players in Paul McCreesh’s superb Spanish renaissance programmes “Music for the Duke of Lerma” and “Mass for the Feast of St. Isidore of Seville”. Then the voices join in and the whole Agnus Dei movement is, to my ears at least, quite spine-tingling stuff. The final motet by Peñalosa, ‘O decus virgineum’ (16) for voices only, brings the disc to a fine, declamatory close.

    As already mentioned, in between the composed works described above there are quite a few passages of Gregorian chant. Normally I can do without significant amounts of such things on a CD, much preferring real music; but here the arrangement works quite well because, firstly, the chant sections are well paced and sung with style and conviction, and secondly they add to the textural variety and to the authentic atmosphere of the programme as a whole. In any case I’m happy to set aside such a trivial complaint for the sake of Escobar’s absolutely beautiful music, and in such a splendid performance too. Recorded sound is also excellent, as are the CD booklet notes. Renaissance enthusiasts, if you’ve read this far, please take note: you really shouldn’t miss this fabulous disc!
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    Ensemble Cantus figuratus, Dominique Vellard - Pedro de Escobar: Missa in Granada c. 1520 (2003)

    Track List:

    Francisco de Peñalosa (c.1470-1528)
    [1] O Domina sanctissima
    Motet 4v.
    Gregorian Choral
    [2] Introitus Vultum tuum deprecabuntur
    Pedro de Escobar (1465/70-1535/54)
    [3] Missa 4v. - Kyrie
    [4] Missa 4v. - Gloria
    Gregorian Choral
    [5] Graduale Speciosus forma
    [6] Alleluja Post partum virgo
    [7] Prosa Gaude ad chorus celestium
    Pedro de Escobar
    [8] Missa 4v. - Credo
    Gregorian Choral
    [9] Offertorium Felix namque
    [10] Prefatio
    Pedro de Escobar
    [11] Missa 4v. - Sanctus
    Francisco de Peñalosa
    [12] Pater noster
    Motet 4v.
    Pedro de Escobar
    [13] Missa 4v. - Agnus
    Gregorian Choral
    [14] Communio Beata Viscera
    [15] Ite missa est
    Francisco de Peñalosa
    [16] O decus virgineum
    Motet 4v.

    Performers:
    Ensemble Cantus figuratus
    Dominique Vellard

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