Renaissance Portugal
Sacred Music of Cardoso and Lôbo

Portuguese sacred music of this period inhabits a distinctive sound world that can be seen as a continuation and development of the Spanish style of composers such as Morales and Guerrero, but it is often allied to a tantalizing harmonic richness and colour that is found nowhere else. Its individuality parallels the new and astonishing Manueline architecture in which much of it would have been performed.

" ...a performance of deeply searching spirituality, paced intelligently, as is everything by this choir's director, Harry Christophers" THE TIMES

The Sixteen
Harry Christophers

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TRACK LISTINGS

CARDOSO
Sitivit anima mea 3.56
Tulerunt lapides 1.37
Non mortui 4.23
Missa Regina caeli Kyrie 5.38
Gloria 5.23
Credo 8.46
Sanctus/Benedictus 3.38
Agnus Dei 2.08

LÔBO
Audivi vocem de caelo 2.29
Pater peccavi 2.20
Missa pro defunctis a 8 Introitus 5.27
Kyrie 2.09
Graduale 3.09
Offertorium 3.05
Sanctus/Benedictus 2.17
Agnus Dei 2.30
Lux aeterna 2.36

Total timing 62.51