Marc’antonio Ingegneri: Vol. 4
Missa Gustate Et Videte; Motets For Holy Week and Easter
Gareth Wilson (director), Felix Elliott, Jeremy West (director), Gabriel Kennedy, Emily Nott, Choir of Girton College, Cambridge, The Western Wyndes
All of the performances presented here are effective, and reveal the choir of Girton College, Cambridge to be a fine ensemble…
Marc’antonio Ingegneri: Vol. 4
Missa Gustate Et Videte; Motets For Holy Week and Easter
Gareth Wilson (director), Felix Elliott, Jeremy West (director), Gabriel Kennedy, Emily Nott, Choir of Girton College, Cambridge, The Western Wyndes
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All of the performances presented here are effective, and reveal the choir of Girton College, Cambridge to be a fine ensemble…
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The Cremonese composer Marc’Antonio Ingegneri (c. 1535/36–92) is chiefly remembered as the teacher of Claudio Monteverdi while, for well-nigh 500 years, his own achievements were left to sit in the shadows. This fourth in a series of pioneering recordings from the Choir of Girton College, Cambridge, presents a sequence of music for Holy Week and Easter, confirming Ingegneri to have been one of the masters of his age. The striking range of moods heard here will confound conventional expectations of Renaissance polyphony: Ingegneri’s emotional palette extends from tender intimacy in some of these motets to dancing, celebratory jubilation in the Mass setting – all of it music of breathtaking richness and beauty.
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All of the performances presented here are effective, and reveal the choir of Girton College, Cambridge to be a fine ensemble…
The choir, with 33 (mixed-gender, adult) members, is ideal, and the booklet includes substantial essays addressing Ingegneri's music from various perspectives. The album and its companions in the series offer an excellent introduction to a neglected Renaissance composer.

