Lassus: Biographie Musicale Volume V
Lassus l’Européen
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Vox Luminis capture Lassus's restrained melancholy very well…but seem less assured when the text turns jocular or louche…their best performances here are highlights of the set as a whole.
Lassus: Biographie Musicale Volume V
Lassus l’Européen
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
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Vox Luminis capture Lassus's restrained melancholy very well…but seem less assured when the text turns jocular or louche…their best performances here are highlights of the set as a whole.
About
The last of our five-CD series dedicated to “Lasso: a musical biography” is not strictly biographical, but intends to report in all their diversity the immense celebrity of his works, from his beginnings up to posthumous publications, spread by publishers-printers from France, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany.
It ends with one of the only two 12-part compositions written by him, a grand motet for wrapping up this quintuple tribute to the greatest composer of the second half of the sixteenth century.
Performed by Gramophone Recording of the Year winners Vox Luminis, directed by Lionel Meunier.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
February 2016
Vox Luminis capture Lassus's restrained melancholy very well…but seem less assured when the text turns jocular or louche…their best performances here are highlights of the set as a whole.
