Composer: Vicente Lusitano
Performer: Marian Consort
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Linn
Catalogue: CKD694
Release: 2022
Size: 1.12 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Praeter rerum seriem
02. Regina caeli
03. Aspice Domine
04. Ave spes nostra, Dei genitrix
05. Salve Regina
06. Heu me, Domine
07. Emendemus in melius
08. Sancta Maria
09. Sancta mater, istud agas
10. Inviolata, integra et casta es
Following its debut on Linn presenting a triptych of works by Josquin des Prez, Vicente Lusitano and Roderick Williams, The Marian Consort now focuses its attention on the central figure of this trio, the “Portuguese”. In his own time an important music theorist, Lusitano’s reputation and music have both been neglected in ours. As so often with musical figures of the Renaissance, many of the details of his life remain unknown. We can, however, be reasonably confident that he was the first published composer of African heritage. Referred to as “pardo” in one eighteenth-century source, his only surviving printed book of compositions, the Liber primus epigramatum, was issued in Rome in 1551. True to its pioneer spirit as “brilliant discoverers, and exponents, of rare repertoire” (The Observer), The Marian Consort has recorded a carefully chosen programme of these striking and impressive unjustly forgotten works.