Brabant Ensemble/Rice
(Hyperion)
It is said that the first four bars of this piece so ravished Charles IX of France that he offered Lassus lashings of cash to leave Munich and write for him, but without success. They certainly are astonishing in their harmonic daring, moving from C major via G major and B major to C sharp minor in the bat of an eyelid, and are wonderfully captured here by the suavely assured Brabant Ensemble under scholarly Stephen Rice. The prologue and 12 movements that make up Prophetiae Sibyllarum are joined by a mass, a magnificat and three marvellous motets, including the sumptuous "Tristis est anima mea". Listen and be moved.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/aug/21/lassus-propetiae-sibyllarum-brabant-review
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