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The effect is still opulent: texts are painted witha vivid dynamic range and (dare I say it?) the occasional expressive vibrato...The results - intimate yet intense - are a fitting reflection... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Jun 2014
Catalogue No: 4792610
Label: DG Archiv
Length: 70 minutes

Lobo, A: Versa est in luctum

Work length5:15

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Ensemble Plus Ultra
Recorded: 2014-01-29
Recording Venue: Ascot Priory Church

Morales, C: Clamabat autem mulier Chananea

Work length3:37

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Ensemble Plus Ultra
Recorded: 2014-01-29
Recording Venue: Ascot Priory Church

Guerrero, Francisco: Prudentes virgines

Work length4:48

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Ensemble Plus Ultra
Recorded: 2014-01-29
Recording Venue: Ascot Priory Church

Lobo, A: Missa Prudentes virgines, a 5

Work length29:14

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Ensemble Plus Ultra
Recorded: 2014-01-29
Recording Venue: Ascot Priory Church

Kyrie

Track length3:45

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Gloria

Track length5:33

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Credo

Track length7:44

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Sanctus

Track length3:26

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Benedictus

Track length2:38

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Agnus Dei

Track length6:08

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Morales, C: Quanti mercernarii

Work length5:23

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Ensemble Plus Ultra
Recorded: 2014-01-29
Recording Venue: Ascot Priory Church

Tejeda: Rex autem David

Work length4:40

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Ensemble Plus Ultra
Recorded: 2014-01-29
Recording Venue: Ascot Priory Church

Morales, C: Expandit Sion manus suas

Work length10:33

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Ensemble Plus Ultra
Recorded: 2014-01-29
Recording Venue: Ascot Priory Church

Tejeda: Miserere mei, Deus

Work length3:36

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Ensemble Plus Ultra
Recorded: 2014-01-29
Recording Venue: Ascot Priory Church

Lobo, A: Ave regina coelorum

Work length3:26

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Ensemble Plus Ultra
Recorded: 2014-01-29
Recording Venue: Ascot Priory Church

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In 2011 DG released a spectacular 10-CD anthology on Archiv Produktion with Ensemble Plus Ultra (EPU), “the finest British early music singers” (Early Music Today), commemorating the 400th anniversary of Tomas de Victoria’s death. This box sold about 6.100 units worldwide and won a Gramophone award.

Now the award winning ensemble is back with a major recording project to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of El Greco in 2014 – composers including Cristobal de Morales, Alonso Lobo and Alonso de Tejeda were prolific in Toledo during the 37 years El Greco lived and worked there, and much of this music certainly inspired his painting.

Morales is THE Spanish composer of the Renaissance. Morales – Kapellmeister at the cathedral in Toledo, but also in Italian cities – is generally considered to be the most influential Spanish composer before Victoria. Almost all of his music is sacred, and all of it is vocal.

Pieces by Lobo and Tejeda make a wonderful conclusion to the disc – all in all a varied program, and encompassing three composers from Toledo during the time of El Greco.

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September 2014

The effect is still opulent: texts are painted witha vivid dynamic range and (dare I say it?) the occasional expressive vibrato...The results - intimate yet intense - are a fitting reflection of Counter-Reformation ethos, epitomised in the turbulent works of El Greco.

August 2014

Morales, in particular, is a composer whose music is always worth hearing...here he brings out the best in Plus Ultra.

24th July 2014

It's a nicely conceived sequence, even if the connections with El Greco sometimes seem a bit contrived, and is performed by the seven members of Ensemble Plus Ultra with great care and refinement, though sometimes with a bit too much English reserve for my taste.

Early Music Today

Ensemble Plus Ultra presents another fine programme of Spanish renaissance polyphony best described as somewhere between transcendental and ethereal. Singing with just one voice per part, the ensemble creates a rich, blended sound spiced with crystal clear diction.

From Spain to Eternity - The Sacred Polyphony of El Greco's Toledo

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