Vicente Lusitano: Motets
Marian Consort
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022, World Premiere Recording (Rediscovery)
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Early Music
As we have come to expect from the Marian Consort singers, their performances are well tuned, with an assured grasp of style throughout and with the sense of direction compellingly sustained.
Vicente Lusitano: Motets
Marian Consort
Purchase product
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022, World Premiere Recording (Rediscovery)
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Early Music
As we have come to expect from the Marian Consort singers, their performances are well tuned, with an assured grasp of style throughout and with the sense of direction compellingly sustained.
About
Following its digital debut on Linn presenting a triptych of works by Josquin des Prez, Vicente Lusitano and Roderick Williams, The Marian Consort now focuses its attention on the central figure of this trio, the ‘Portuguese’. In his own time an important music theorist, Lusitano’s reputation and music have both been neglected in ours. As so often with musical figures of the Renaissance, many of the details of his life remain unknown. We can, however, be reasonably confident that he was the first published composer of African heritage. Referred to as ‘pardo’ in one eighteenth-century source, his only surviving printed book of compositions, the Liber primus epigramatum, was issued in Rome in 1551. True to its pioneer spirit as ‘brilliant discoverers, and exponents, of rare repertoire’ (The Observer), The Marian Consort has recorded a carefully chosen programme of these striking and impressive unjustly forgotten works.
Contents and tracklist
Spotlight on this release
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Rory McCleery on Vicente Lusitano
16th Feb 2023
The Marian Consort's director talks about the ensemble's recent album of choral polyphony by Vicente Lusitano, the earliest-known classical composer of African ancestry.
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineAwards Issue 2022Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards2023Nominated - Early Music
November 2022
As we have come to expect from the Marian Consort singers, their performances are well tuned, with an assured grasp of style throughout and with the sense of direction compellingly sustained.
Awards Issue 2022
This will be a revelation to many...one senses a clarity of purpose that goes beyond sonic beauty, though that also is there in spades: the female singers and Rory McCleery’s alto shape their lines beautifully.
