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Lassus's 1560s settings of the seven penitential psalms are major achievements, full of ingenious word-painting, given exemplary performances here and realised in an apt acoustic. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2006, 5 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 30th Jan 2006
Catalogue No: CDD22056
Label: Hyperion
Series: Dyads
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Lassus: Penitential Psalm No. 1, Psalm 6: Domine ne in furore

Work length14:09

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Lassus: Penitential Psalm No. 2, Psalm 32 / 31: Beati quorum remissae sunt

Work length19:02

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Lassus: Penitential Psalm No. 3, Psalm 38 / 37: Domine ne in furore tuo … quoniam

Work length27:24

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Lassus: Laudate Psalms

Work length11:13

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Lassus: Penitential Psalm No. 4, Psalm 51 / 50: Miserere mei Deus

Work length20:54

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Lassus: Penitential Psalm No. 5, Psalm 102 / 101: Domine, exaudi orationem meam, et clamor meus ad te veniat

Work length25:37

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Lassus: Penitential Psalm No. 6, Psalm 130 / 129: De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine

Work length8:56

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Lassus: Penitential Psalm No. 7, Psalm 143 / 142: Domine, exaudi orationem meam: auribus percipe obsecrationem meam in veritate tua

Work length15:11

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Lassus was one of the most prolific of all Renaissance composers, writing an extraordinary quantity of music of high quality and in an exceptionally wide range of styles. Only a handful of Lassus' contemporaries begin to approach his compositional refinement and scarcely any can match his innate ability to express the meaning of a text so clearly. This skill comes to the fore in these setting of the seven Penitential Psalms, texts which held an important place in the liturgy during the Church's build-up to Easter. These are works of a profoundly gloomy nature. Each Psalm takes its 'mode' (or 'tonality') from one of the sequence of eight 'modes' by which plainchant had come to be categorized. Lassus solves the problem of what to do with the eighth mode by amalgamating two of the so-called 'Laudate' Psalms (those beginning with the word 'Laudate'an instruction to the people to praise God) into a work full of vitality. Although having absolutely no liturgical link with the Penitential Psalms, Lassus published all eight works together, perhaps exactly because they are so different in mood.

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April 2006

Lassus's 1560s settings of the seven penitential psalms are major achievements, full of ingenious word-painting, given exemplary performances here and realised in an apt acoustic.

Lassus - Penitential Psalms

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