COMPOSERS: Guerrero
LABELS: Signum
WORKS: Vespers for All Saints: Missa pro defunctis
PERFORMER: Chapelle du Roi/Alistair Dixon
CATALOGUE NO: SIGCD 017
Nine voices with a distinctive lustre mark the quatercentenary of Guerrero’s death. Evocative Vespers psalms, part simple plainchant, part swathed in polyphony, contrast with Gothic arches of sustained sound in the restrained Requiem Mass. Deeply moving, though passion occasionally warps intonation. George Pratt
Guerrero: Vespers for All Saints: Missa pro defunctis
Nine voices with a distinctive lustre mark the quatercentenary of Guerrero’s death. Evocative Vespers psalms, part simple plainchant, part swathed in polyphony, contrast with Gothic arches of sustained sound in the restrained Requiem Mass. Deeply moving, though passion occasionally warps intonation. George Pratt
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Published: January 20, 2012 at 1:23 pm