- ReleaseProduct
- Lassus: Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales
- Artist
- Collegium Vocale Gent and Philippe Herreweghe
- Label
- Harmonia Mundi
- Catalogue Number
- HMX292183132
- Release Date
- July 31, 2007
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CD 2×CD
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A total work of art. When his Penitential Psalms were published in Munich in 1584, Orlande de Lassus was the most famous composer in Europe. The work had been composed 25 years earlier, but it did not show its age in the slightest. And, four centuries later, this collection still rouses the admiration of musicologists and the astonishment of performers and listeners, for the pure musical beauty of ‘abstract’ polyphony is here matchlessly combined with the expressive possibilities of speech.
- 1 Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales: Psalmus Primus Poenitentialis Domine, ne in furore tuo arguas me 16:26
- 2 Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales: Psalmus Secundus Poenitentialis Beati, quorum remissae sunt iniquitates 18:22
- 3 Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales: Psalmus Tertius Poenitentialis Domine ne in furore tuo arguas me 27:12
- 4 Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales: Psalmus Quartus Poenitentialis Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam 24:24
- 5 Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales: Psalmus Quintus Poenitentialis Domine exaudi orationem meam 27:14
- 6 Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales: Psalmus Sextus Poenitentialis De profundis clamavi ad te Domine 9:17
- 7 Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales: Psalmus Septimus Poenitentialis Domine exaudi orationem meam 17:47