Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Clematis & Leonardo Garcia Alarcon – De Lassus: Canticum canticorum (2016) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz]

At the height of the Renaissance, the music of Orlande de Lassus frequently combines the emotion of secular music with sacred compositions. With their erotic connotations, the texts of The Song of Songs are an ideal source for bringing together sacred and profane feelings. Based on his most famous song, Lassus wrote one of his unitary masses: Suzanne un jour. Along with the Magnificat that he composed on De Rore’s madrigal Ancorche col partire, here are two religious compositions of which the themes are borrowed from evocations of amorous turmoil.

Tracklist

Roland De Lassus (1532 – 1594)
Canticum Canticorum
1 Osculetur me osculo a 8 04:01
2 Veni in hortum meum a 6 02:40
3 Tota pulchra es a 4 03:52
4 Vulnerasti cor meum a 6 02:22
5 Surge propera amica mea / Secunda pars: Surge propera a 6 03:30
6 Quam pulchra es / Secunda pars: Gutur tuum a 5 05:49
7 Veni dilecte me / Secunda pars: Vidamus si floruit a 5 03:46
8 Audi dulcis amica mea a 4 03:27
Magnificat super Ancor che col partire di Cipriano a 5
9 Magnificat super Ancor che col partire di Cipriano a 5 08:29
Missa super Susanne un jour a 5
10 Kyrie 03:46
11 Gloria 05:23
12 Credo 09:14
13S anctus 05:01
14 Agnus Dei 03:31