Composer: Frei Manuel Cardoso, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Performer: Choir of Carmelite Priory
Conductor: Simon Lloyd
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0498
Release: 2022
Size: 1.21 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Palestrina: Hic est discipulus ille
Cardoso: Missa hic est discipulus ille
02. I. Kyrie
03. II. Gloria
04. III. Credo
05. IV. Sanctus
06. V. Benedictus
07. VI. Agnus Dei
08. Palestrina: Tradent enim vos
Cardoso: Missa tradent enim vos
09. I. Kyrie
10. II. Gloria
11. III. Credo
12. IV. Sanctus
13. V. Benedictus
14. VI. Agnus Dei
15. VII. Agnus Dei II
Manuel Cardoso (1566–1650) was one of the most important composers of the golden age of Portuguese polyphony around the turn of the seventeenth century. But history has not been kind to him: the 1755 Lisbon earthquake that ruined the Convento do Carmo, where he spent most of his working life, also resulted in the loss of the only attested image of the composer and a good deal of his music – and much of that which survived has been neglected, his Masses included. This series will shed long-overdue light on these forgotten masterpieces, beginning with two ‘parody’ Masses, so called because they are based on existing music, in this instance two Palestrina motets.