Special offer. The Earth Resounds
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers & Eamonn Dougan
The choir is at its best in two movements selected from Antoine Brumel's Missa Et ecce terrae motus...The Gloria opens with some truly delicate singing, and the clear, restricted harmonies evoke...
Special offer. The Earth Resounds
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers & Eamonn Dougan
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The choir is at its best in two movements selected from Antoine Brumel's Missa Et ecce terrae motus...The Gloria opens with some truly delicate singing, and the clear, restricted harmonies evoke...
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Josquin, Brumel and Lassus were truly European composers, leaving their origins to work in the top establishments of Aix-en-Provence, Ferrara, Rome and Munich. Their music has a unique sonority which will astound you all - from the depth of expression and fascinating texts of Josquin (prepare yourselves for the surreal nature of Praeter rerum seriem) to the overtly decorative mass movements of Brumel’s Missa Et ecce terraemotus where the 12 parts interweave in extensive imitation and thrilling tracery, culminating in the extraordinary harmonic stillness of Lassus’s Timor et tremor and his gorgeously evocative 12-part setting of Aurora lucis rutilat.
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Awards and reviews
June 2012
The choir is at its best in two movements selected from Antoine Brumel's Missa Et ecce terrae motus...The Gloria opens with some truly delicate singing, and the clear, restricted harmonies evoke a performance of monumental majesty from The Sixteen.
June 2012
The strongest features of this latest recording from The Sixteen are its conception and the performances of Lassus's music
19th February 2012
The byword here is magnificence: three of the greatest Netherlandish Renaissance composers in works of stature, ingenuity and beauty...The Sixteen’s singing, mostly directed by one of their basses, Dougan (supervised by an incapacitated Christophers), is as refined, clear and elegantly phrased as always.
16th February 2012
It's all music that has been chosen for the vividness of its response to the texts...The Sixteen plot all these musical sleights of hand with great precision and suaveness, even if the results are a little too polished and controlled; there's surely more guts to this music, more earthiness to its rhythms, than these performances admit.
The Independent on Sunday 26th February 2012
Outstanding among these crystalline contemplations is Brumel's Gloria from his "Earthquake" mass, vocal lines perpetually erupting over each other.
