Lassus: Missa Vinum Bonum

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Product Description The complete mass setting (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, etc.) and accompanying service for one of Orlandus Lassus's most thrilling and accomplished 'parody' masses. Here the term parody has nothing to do with its modern ironic and comical meaning, but rather a parody mass is one that borrows from an existing piece of music (often secular) as the basis of its melodic themes. Here Lassus adapts a drinking song, the 'good wine' an oblique reference to Christ's miracle at Cana, or the communion wine. Review It is fascinating to observe the skill with which Lassus reworks his models (for parody masses), chosen most commonly from among Italian madrigals, French chansons and Latin motets... Ex Cathedra offer a clear alternative to King's. Their account of the motet 'Vinum bonum' itself is more involving, and for the Mass theirs is the more dynamic reading... Ex Cathedra present a contrasting series of motets for three to eight voices, and the wind ensemble round out the disc with 3 bicinia, two-part pieces excerpted from his vocal music. --Gramophone