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Luís Toscano, Cupertinos - Manuel Cardoso: Requiem, Lamentations, Magnificat & Motets (2019)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Luís Toscano, Cupertinos - Manuel Cardoso: Requiem, Lamentations, Magnificat & Motets (2019)

Luís Toscano, Cupertinos - Manuel Cardoso: Requiem, Lamentations, Magnificat & Motets (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 345 Mb | Total time: 69:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68252 | Recorded: 2016

Even though Portuguese composer Manuel Cardoso lived well into the early Baroque era, his music was informed by the older Renaissance polyphony of Palestrina, and despite the dramatic stylistic changes that developed elsewhere in Europe, his works remained rather conservative and representative of the church music of the Counter-Reformation. Like his older Spanish contemporary Tomás Luis de Victoria, Cardoso's best-known work is his Requiem (Missa pro defunctis a 4), which is perhaps the most frequently performed of his surviving compositions, which were published in five volumes in Lisbon between 1613 and 1648.

Owen Rees, Contrapunctus - Libera nos: The Cry of the Oppressed (2013)

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Owen Rees, Contrapunctus - Libera nos: The Cry of the Oppressed (2013)

Owen Rees, Contrapunctus - Libera nos: The Cry of the Oppressed (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 302 Mb | Total time: 69:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Signum Classics | # SIGCD338 | Recorded: 2011

Coupling powerful interpretations with path-breaking scholarship, the choir Contrapunctus presents music by the best-known composers as well as unfamiliar masterpieces. Directed by Owen Rees, a specialist in music of the 16th and 17 centuries, the group presents imaginative programmes revealing previously undiscovered musical treasures and throwing new light on familiar works.

Bo Holten, Ars Nova - Portuguese Polyphony (1995)

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Bo Holten, Ars Nova - Portuguese Polyphony (1995)

Bo Holten, Ars Nova - Portuguese Polyphony (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 246 Mb | Total time: 63:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.553310 | Recorded: 1992

This is a gorgeous collection of unaccompanied sacred pieces from the masterly Ars Nova, under the inspired direction of Bo Holten. The honeyed tones of the choir infuse this music with such glory, in all its forms, that even a heart of stone might feel the divine reaching out, reflecting the pain, suffering, but also the absolute sense of compassion to all who hear it. Wonderfully warm and comforting (healing?) music, superbly sung. This cd comes with full text for the pieces, production is excellent, and you get access to all these riches for a trifle.

Peter Phillips, El León de Oro - Amarae morti: Cardoso, Gombert, Lassus, Morales, Palestrina, Phinot, Victoria (2019)

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Peter Phillips, El León de Oro - Amarae morti: Cardoso, Gombert, Lassus, Morales, Palestrina, Phinot, Victoria (2019)

Peter Phillips, El León de Oro - Amarae morti: Cardoso, Gombert, Lassus, Morales, Palestrina, Phinot, Victoria (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 66:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68279 | Recorded: 2016

A sublime survey of sacred music of the high Renaissance, Hyperion's 2018 release Amarae Morti offers transparent performances by Peter Phillips and the a cappella chamber choir El León de Oro. Covering music of the Franco-Flemish and Iberian schools, the program follows a trajectory from darkness to light, from somber motets by Dominique Phinot, Orlande de Lassus, Nicolas Gombert, and Manuel Cardoso to glorious works by Tomás Luis de Victoria, Cristóbal de Morales, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. There is a consistency of subjects in the program, which includes settings of the Lamentations, Media Vita, the Regina Coeli, and the Magnificat, revealing different treatments of these familiar texts and varying levels of complexity and contrapuntal mastery, which culminate in the magnificent polychoral works of Victoria and Palestrina.

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Cardoso: Requiem, Motets, Magnificat (2001)

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Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Cardoso: Requiem, Motets, Magnificat (2001)

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Cardoso: Requiem, Motets, Magnificat (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 280 Mb | Total time: 70:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gimell | CDGIM 021 | Recorded: 1990

The Portuguese school of Renaissance composers is only just beginning to be explored. It came to maturity relatively slowly, and when it finally did, in the first half of the seventeenth century, much of the rest of Europe had moved on to a new musical world. Only countries on the edge of the continent – especially England, Poland and Portugal – continued as late as 1650 to give employment to composers who found creative possibilities in unaccompanied choral music. Even so, very few of these composers remained completely untouched by the experiments of Monteverdi and the new Italian Baroque school, so that their music became a fascinating hybrid, looking forward and back, often unexpectedly introducing twists and turns to what otherwise might be taken for pure ‘Palestrina’.