Title: Magnificat Motets & Chnasons Artist: Compere, L. / Orlando Consort Label: Hyperion Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 034571280691 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2015-08-14 Number of Discs: 1
The Orlando Consort's third recording for Hyperion turns to the music of Loyset Compère, a composer the group first investigated some twenty years ago. In the intervening decades musicological research has elevated this composer from also-ran outsider to something of a trailblazer. For example, the wonderfully complex Magnificat recorded here, is now thought to predate the masterworks of Josquin by some fifteen years. A gorgeous selection of motets and chansons further charts this period of radical musical experimentation.
