Utwory na płycie:

• Lamentationes Jeremiae Feria V (beginning)
• Antes que comais a Dios (beginning)

Francisco de Penalosa:
Lamentationes Jeremiae Feria V
Lamentationes Jeremiae Feria VI
Gloria in excelsis Deo (Missa L’homme armé)
Sancta Maria, succurre miseris
Unica est columba mea
Credo in unum Deum (Missa L’homme armé)
Agnus Dei (Missa L’homme armé)

Pedro de Escobar:
Stabat mater dolorosa

Francisco Guerrero:
Quae est ista
Antes que comáis a Dios

Renaissance music from Spain has come to mean the works of composers such as Tomás Luís de Victoria or Francisco Guerrero rather than their predecessors. But Francisco de Penalosa – who died in 1528, the same year that Guerrero was born – and his contemporaries were musicians of genuine imagination and skill, whose work often shows a formidable individuality. The most recent edition of Penalosa’s oeuvre lists 22 works as genuine: masses, lamentations, hymns and motets. From these, New York Polyphony have selected two highly expressive Lamentations, intended for services held during Holy Week and setting biblical texts bemoaning the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC. Both of these are recorded for the first time. Besides two brief motets, Penalosais also represented by sections from his Missa L’homme armé, one of the many examples from the 15th to the 17th century of cyclic masses based on secular melodies.

These pieces by Penalosaare brought into relief by shorter works by his near-contemporary Pedro de Escobar – a deeply haunting setting of the beginning of the hymn Stabat Mater – and the aforementioned Francisco Guerrero. Guerrero is represented by Quae estista, a setting of words from the Song of Songs which have inspired the composer to ecstatic cascades of notes. In contrast his Antes que comáisa Dios, with a text in Spanish, is simple but effective, in a propulsive triple time.

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Recording: June 2018 at Princeton Abbey, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Płyta wydana w opakowaniu BIS ekopak.