フランシスコ・デ・ペニャローサ: エレミアの哀歌

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SACDハイブリッド盤。2006年に結成された男声4名のアンサンブル、ニューヨーク・ポリフォニー。BISレーベル第5弾は15世紀後半から16世紀にかけてのスペイン盛期ルネサンス音楽の作曲家、フランシスコ・デ・ペニャローサ、ペドロ・デ・エスコバル、フランシスコ・ゲレーロの作品を収録しました。ニューヨーク・ポリフォニーによる極上の声楽アンサンブルを聴かせてくれます。
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The music of Spanish composer Francisco de Penalosa, a generation older than Morales and 75 years or more ahead of Victoria, has only recently been rediscovered for the most part. On the evidence here its wonderful, and casual listeners will be delighted to find that the dark sound characteristic of Spanish sacred music was very much present even at this early date. Sample the Lamentationes Jeremiae (Lamentations of Jeremiah), which fits the low male voices of New York Polyphony nicely. This quartet necessarily sings the music with one voice per part, which isnt ideal; Renaissance choirs were demonstrably larger. However, in this gloomy, intimate music the approach works reasonably well, and the ensemble is to be credited for taking on unfamiliar repertory. There are also two sections of a Penalosa mass, motets by this composer, a pair of works by Francisco Guerrero, and a Stabat mater by the even earlier and more obscure Pedro de Escobar. BIS engineers have always presented this group effectively; here they choose the acoustically appropriate environment of Princeton Abbey with strong results. Recommended.