January 2024

Illumina Oculos Meos

The Suspicious Cheese Lords are back with yet another world-premiere; this time it’s a Palestrina mass based on the motet setting some of The Verses of St. Bernard by Andreas de Silva, with the original motet itself.

Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525–1594) ,Andreas de Silva (fl. 1510–1530), Francesco Soriano (1548 or 1549–1621)

CD Info: SCL-505

The Chatham Baroque

After a recent collaboration with this Pittsburgh-based ensemble we hear their recent work dedicated to early Baroque music in Germany, Spain, and the extraordinary Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger.

Composer: Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, Antonio Bertali, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Heinrich Biber

CD Info: CB-01, VCB-01, CB-03

Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, Part 3

We continue our series dedicated Monteverdi’s teacher Marc-Antonio Ingegneri and his long-neglected sacred settings with the Choir of Girton College, Cambridge and their director, Gareth Wilson.

Composer: Marc-Antonio Ingegneri (c.1535/36–92), Giovanni Bassano (c.1561-1617), Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)

CD Info: Toccata Classics label CD # TOCC 0677

Giosquino

Odhecaton and ensemble La Reverdie on the Arcana label return with a project dedicated to Josquin Des Prez’s years in Italy (with help from The Gesualdo Six).

Composer: Josquin Desprez

CD Info: Arcana label A489

Johannes Tourot

The Alamire Foundation continues the extraordinary work of supporting rediscoveries of neglected Flemish masters; their latest efforts give us this cantor in the Hapsburg court who worked in Austria in the 1460s.

Composer: Johannes Tourout

CD Info: Pasacaille label 1124