The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, an exclusive Chandos artist, here presents its third release on the label. Established in the 1670s, the choir has a long and distinguished tradition of performing religious music and here offers distinguished interpretations of sacred works by Orlande de Lassus. Of its most recent release, Hear My Words: Choral Classics from St John’s (CHSA 5085), The Telegraph wrote: ‘The boy treble voices bring lustre and freshness to the sonority and the singing throughout is stirring and polished.’ Lassus was a prolific and versatile composer and the most famous musician of his day. By the age of twenty-one, he had been appointed Director of Music at the church of St John Lateran in Rome, an impressive appointment for one so young. More than 2000 works by Lassus survive: Latin settings of masses, canticles, motets, passions, litanies, and hymns, as well as secular pieces in Italian, French, and German. Lassus was charismatic and gregarious. He was also bipolar, however, a condition that caused him personal unhappiness, but which also accounted for some of the more original and startling passages in his music. The pieces on this recording represent only a small part of his enormous output: nineteen of the 750-odd surviving motets; two of the one hundred Magnificat settings; and three of his dozen purely instrumental works. It is a small sample, but it shows a composer whose formidable technique, kaleidoscopic ear for texture, and matchless word settings made him the darling of the musical High Renaissance in Western Europe. The majority of Lassus’s motets were settings of religious texts. Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum is one of two seven-voice pieces chosen for this recording, and its rich texture allows Lassus to explore appealing vocal combinations without breaking into double-choir cliché. Veni in hortum meum places the listener in the gently seductive world of the Songs of Songs – that ‘sensuously exciting and baffling’ book of the Bible, to quote the English novelist and poetA.S. Byatt. The two Magnificat settings on this recording were composed at least twenty years apart. The Magnificat ‘O che vezzosa aurora’ dates from the mid-1580s. A significant proportion of this work is based directly on a six-voice madrigal by the Modenese composer Orazio Vecchi (1550 – 1605), which was published around the same time. Lassus’s own setting, however, is sunny and optimistic in six-voice sections, and respectively robust and reflective in the three- and four-voice sections.

• Wykonawca His Majestys Sagbutts , Choir of St. John's College
• Data premiery 2011-01-10
• Nośnik CD

Lassus: Magnum Opus Musicum.

• Wykonawca La Fenice
• Data premiery 2009-05-30
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista: CD 1  Bob Chilcott 1. We are  John Lennon, Paul McCartney 2. And I love her 3. I’ll Follow The Sun  Sophie “Frances” Cooke 4. Don't worry about me  Angélique Kidjo 5. Kelele  Billy Joel 6. And So It Goes  Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg 7. Down with Love  John Legend 8. All of Me  Traditional: 9. Shenandoah 10. Lamorna 11. Danny Boy 12. Bobby Shaftoe 13. Scarborough Fair 14. Loch Lomond 15. Down by the Riverside  Paul Simon 16. Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy  Wiz Khalifa, Charlie Puth 17. See You Again  Spike Milligan 18. Alice in Wonderland  KT Tunstall 19. Black Horse and The Cherry Tree  George & Ira Gershwin 20. Love is Here To Stay  James Taylor 21. That Lonesome Road  U2 22. M. L. K. CD 2  Henry George Lay 1. The Prayer of King Henry VI  William Byrd 2. Sing Joyfully  Bob Chilcott 3. Thou, My Love, Art Fair  Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 4. Sicut cervus  Thomas Tallis 5. In manus tuas  Toby Hession 6. Master of Music  Orlande de Lassus 7. Musica Dei donum  Josef Rheinberger 8. Abendlied  Richard Rodney Bennett 9. The Bell Both Toll  Francis Poulenc 10. Quatre petites pri?res de Saint François d’Assise  Heinrich Schütz 11. Das ist je gewißlich wahr  Max Reger 12. Morgengesang  Eric Whitacre 13. This Marriage  Salamone Rossi Hebreo 14. Psalm 124  Alonso Lobo 15. Versa est in luctum  Ralph Vaughan Williams 16. Rest  Geoffrey Poole 17. Tutivillus  Charles Villiers Stanford 18. The Bluebird CD 3  John Rutter 1. Be Not Afeard  Gabriel Fauré 2. Le papillon et la fleur  Orlande de Lassus 3. Dessus le marché d’ Arras  William Byrd 4. Though Amaryllis Dance in Green  Juan Vásquez 5. Lagrimas de mi consuelo 6. Gentil se?ora mia  Toru Takemitsu 7. Handmade Proverbs  Camille Saint-Saëns 8. Les Marins de Kermor 9. Romance du soir  Juan de Anchieta 10. Con amores, la mi madre  Johannes Brahms 11. All meine Herzgedanken  Franz Schubert 12. Die Nacht  Claude le Jeune 13. Revecy venir du Printans  Peter Louis van Dijk 14. Horizons  Jean-Paul-Égide Martini 15. Plaisir d’amour  Edward Johnson 16. Come, Blessed Bird  Traditional 17. The Little Green Lane  Ludwig Senfl 18. Das G’läut zu Speyer  Josquin des Prez 19. Basiez moi!  Georges Auric 20. Quand tu dors pres de moi

• Wykonawca The King's Singers
• Data premiery 2017-11-01
• Nośnik CD

Religijne utwory wokalne jednego z największych twórców epoki renesansu Rolanda de Lassus. Wykonawcy to zespół Collegium Vocale Gent pod dyrekcją Philippe'a Herreweghe

• Wykonawca Herreweghe Philippe , Collegium Vocale Gent
• Data premiery 2014-10-13
• Nośnik CD

Religijne utwory wokalne jednego z największych twórców epoki renesansu Rolanda de Lassus. Wykonawcy to zespół Collegium Vocale Gent pod dyrekcją Philippe'a Herreweghe

• Wykonawca Herreweghe Philippe , Collegium Vocale Gent
• Data premiery 2014-10-13
• Nośnik CD

  For its 40th birthday, Musique en Wallonie begins a long and rich journey around Roland de Lassus (Mons, 1531 – Munich, 1594). In five years, five discs recorded by five European ensembles will draw a musical biography of the famous composer through unreleased works. Volume I of this anthology includes pieces dating from the 1550s, period of travelling – Naples, Rome, England, Netherlands – and the growth of Lassus’ fame. Madrigals, motets, chansons and villanelles this CD consists in are constantly impregnated by various madrigalisms, an expressive device consisting of transposing into music the notions (material, intellectual or emotional) suggested by the text.  

• Wykonawca Ludus Modalis
• Data premiery 2011-09-01
• Nośnik CD

  For its 40th birthday, Musique en Wallonie begins a long and rich journey around Roland de Lassus (Mons, 1531 – Munich, 1594). In five years, five discs recorded by five European ensembles will draw a musical biography of the famous composer through unreleased works. Volume I of this anthology includes pieces dating from the 1550s, period of travelling – Naples, Rome, England, Netherlands – and the growth of Lassus’ fame. Madrigals, motets, chansons and villanelles this CD consists in are constantly impregnated by various madrigalisms, an expressive device consisting of transposing into music the notions (material, intellectual or emotional) suggested by the text.  

• Wykonawca Ludus Modalis
• Data premiery 2011-09-01
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista:1. Clarinet Marmalade2. Lonesome Road3. When My Dreamboat Comes Home4. Black & White Rag5. Slide Frog Slide6. Save Your Sorrow7. Some of These Days8. My Maryland9. Oh How I Miss You Tonight10. Lassus Trombone11. In the Sweet By and By12. Panama

• Wykonawca Lars Edegran and His New Orleans All Stars
• Data premiery 2014-11-17
• Nośnik CD

Wolumin piąty z cyklu płyt poświęconych jednemu z najwybitniejszych twórców muzyki renesansu Rolanda de Lassus. Płyta zawiera wokalne utwory religijne. Wykonawcy to zespół Vox Luminis pod dyrekcją Lionela Meunier.

• Wykonawca Vox Luminis , Meunier Lionel
• Data premiery 2015-10-16
• Nośnik CD

Antologia najbardziej znanych utworów z epoki renesansu nagranuch dla firmy Ricercar przez zespół Vox Luminis. Są to utwory wokalne takich kompozytorów jak Josquin Desprez, Johannes Ockeghem, Antoine Brumel, Cipriano de Rore, Roland de Lassus, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Domenico Mazzocchi, Luca Marenzio i inni.

• Wykonawca Vox Luminis
• Data premiery 2020-04-17
• Nośnik CD