Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Performer: La Tempête
Conductor: Simon-Pierre Bestion
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA1084
Release: 2024
Size: 1.34 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Lectio prima, LV 209: Parce mihi domine
02. Sextus Psalmus poenitentialis, LV 799: De Profundis clamavi
03. La nuict froide et sombre, LV 578
04. Sine textu 7 (I)
05. No giorno t’haggio, LV 32
06. Dulces exuviae, LV 385
07. Super flumina Babylonis, LV 325
08. Luxuriosa res vinum
09. Prophetiae sibyllarum: Carmina chromatico, LV 1048
10. Quam pulchra es, LV 838
11. Susannen frumb, LV 560
12. Allala pia calia, LV 667
13. Peccantem me quotidie, LV 43
14. In monte oliveti, LV 334
15. Memento peccati tui, LV 1038
16. La cortesia, LV 33
17. Si du malheur
18. Si textu 7 (II)
19. Eripe me, LV 476
20. Une puce j’ai dedans l’oreille, LV 582
21. Requiem à 5, LV 963: Introït
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.