Pater Peccavi: Music of Lamentation from Renaissance Portugal

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Pater Peccavi: Music of Lamentation from Renaissance PortugalSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Biblical texts of lamentation were embraced by composers of the late Renaissance for their artistic and expressive potential. But in Portugal a kingdom without a king, its people governed by a foreign power such settings gave life, as well, to a rich expression of covert political commentary. Rory McCleerys ongoing interest in this field of polyphony bears fruit for the first time in a ground breaking programme. Many

does so with nicely pointed fluency

whether singing

Ferries evokes the period with panache and breathtakingly virtuosic flair

by an artist for whom connecting with audiences is second nature

its title reflecting an opening to new modes of expression

Confessing to a thirty-year love affair with the music of Mexico

"This disc restores the music to the chapel of All Souls

to the horror of both lutenists and moralists

Sean Shibe – whose full album debut here nests among four of those Bream-commissioned works a clutch of Dowland pieces from a previous Elizabethan Golden Age – stands out as a truly uncommon talent

It is a CD to savour and to enjoy

"This intriguing recital brings us music from a period that is very well documented on record but much of what we hear is new – albeit not just in the usual sense of not having been recorded previously

this is altogether a tantalising testament to the transcriber's art

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