Title: Orlando, A Melancholic Portrait Artist: Simon-Pierre Bestion Label: Alpha Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 3701624510841 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2024-11-29 Number of Discs: 1
Orlando di Lasso (b. 1532 in Mons) was one of the most important and prolific composers in the whole of sixteenth-century Europe. Famed as a singer from boyhood, he escaped several kidnapping attempts ordered by princes who coveted his talent for their courts. Di Lasso is a fascinating character: an extravagant and provocative musical figure, an adventurous artist and cultivated polyglot. On being asked to provide the soundtrack for a documentary on di Lasso by Joachim Thome, Simon-Pierre Bestion became immersed in the composer's multiverse. This album, an extension of the music for that film, projects the iconoclast di Lasso into our 21st century world. As Bestion explains: 'I made a deliberate choice here to interpret this music with a great freedom of instrumentation and of timbre. What is more, even though there were no drums or saxophones in di Lasso's day, the performer was free to choose whichever or the ornamentation he wanted.' Join La Tempete for this unpredictable, fantasy-enriched exploration of the timeless realm of Orlando.
Tracks: 1.1 Sacrae lections novem ex propheta Iob~Lectio Prima: Parce Mihi Domine 1.2 De Profundis Clamavi 1.3 Nuict Froide Et Sombre 1.4 Textless bicinia~Sine Textu 7 (I) 1.5 No Giorno T'Haggio Havere 1.6 Dulces Exuviae 1.7 Super Flumina Babylonis 1.8 Luxuriosa Res Vinum 1.9 Prophetiae Sibyllarum~Carmina Chromatico 1.10 Quam Pulchra es 1.11 Susannen Frumb 1.12 Allala Pia Calia 1.13 Peccantem Me Quotidie 1.14 In Monte Oliveti 1.15 Memento Peccati Tui 1.16 Cortesia 1.17 Si Du Malheur 1.18 Textless bicinia~Sine Textu 7 (II) 1.19 Eripe Me 1.20 Puce J'Ai Dedans L'Oreille 1.21 Requiem a 5~Introït
