February 2023

Cristobal de Morales

The Cambridge-based ensemble De Profundis begins a set of recordings of all the masses and Magnificat settings by the famous 16th century Spanish composer; this first disc gives us the famous Missa Mille regretz, and the very obscure mass on the tune “Tell the gentleman not to complain."

Composer: Cristóbal de Morales

CD Info: Hyperion label CD CDA68415

Requiem d’Anne de Bretagne

Denis Raisin-Dadre and his Doulce Memoire Ensemble are back with an album of music written on the death of the Queen Consort of France and famous patron of the arts, Anne of Brittany.

Composer: Antoine de Févin

CD Info: CD Alpha 613

Bright & Early

The brilliant lute performer and teacher Hopkinson Smith joins us (for the first time in some 40 years!) with his latest project, dedicated to Francesco Spinacino and Joan Ambrosio Dalza.

Composer: Joan Ambrosio Dalza ?-1508, Francesco Spinacino ?-c.1507, Marchetto Cara 1470-c.1525

CD Info: Naive label CD E 7545

Three More from the Armonico Consort

The multi-voice masses of Alessandro Striggio, folk music from the British Isles, and “Handelian Pyrotechnics” with countertenor William Towers.

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford, Robert Pearsall, Thomas Morley, Thomas Tallis, Alessandro Striggio, Hildegard of Bingen

CD Info: Signum CD SIGCD447, Signum CD SIGCD560, Signum CD SIGCD658