The Lion's Ear: A Tribute to Leo X
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Genre:
Vocal
Label: Ramee
Magazine Review Date: 06/2016
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 65
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: RAM1403
Author: Iain Fenlon
So too do the occasional intrusions of hidden gems. Both Leo’s chapelmaster, Elzéar Genet (better known as Carpentras) and a member of his choir, Bernardo Pisano, composed settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, presumably for performance in the Sistine Chapel during the three final days of Holy Week. Tantalising short extracts from both are given here in a cappella performances, beginning with Pisano’s O vos omnes, with its striking invocatory opening, in a mellifluous and well-balanced account which successfully evokes an appropriately melancholic sound world, and then with Genet’s Jerusalem convertere, which is treated to a convincingly more robust approach. Pride of place must be given to the final track, a setting of the Salve regina by Josquin Desprez. Possibly the work heard by Leo at a post-prandial performance in 1520, it is given here in a strongly characterised reading remarkable for the suppleness of its phrasing and keen understanding of the work’s overall architecture.
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