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Compact Disc CDH55138

£6.99

Recorded in All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London, on 2 & 4 June 1986
Recording Engineer
ANTONY HOWELL
Recording Producer
MARK BROWN
Front Design
TERRY SHANNON
Executive Producer
EDWARD PERRY
© Hyperion Records Ltd, London, 2005
Originally issued on CDA66218

Duration: 59'14
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Front illustration: Tiles and wood carving from the Convent of Almoster

DUARTE LOBÔ (c1565-1646)
FILIPE DE MAGALHÃES (c1571-1652)

Masterpieces of Portuguese Polyphony

THE WILLIAM BYRD CHOIR
GAVIN TURNER director

Contents:

    Duarte Lôbo
    (c1565–1646)

    Missa pro defunctis for eight voices   [24'21]

  1. Introitus Requiem aeternam   [6'15]
  2. Kyrie   [2'16]
  3. Graduale Requiem aeternam   [3'34]
  4. Offertorium Domine, Jesu Christe   [3'33]
  5. Sanctus   [2'59]
  6. Agnus Dei   [2'56]
  7. Communio Lux aeterna   [2'42]

    Audivi vocem de caelo for six voices   [3'03]

     
    Filipe de Magalhães
    (c1571–1652)

    Missa Dilectus meus for five voices   [27'00]

  8. Kyrie   [4'43]
  9. Gloria   [4'47]
  10. Credo   [7'25]
  11. Sanctus   [2'39]
  12. Benedictus   [2'08]
  13. Agnus Dei   [5'16]

  14. Commissa mea pavesco for six voices   [4'36]
Sleeve Notes

GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE

'Gorgeous' (Fanfare, USA)

'Lôbo's glorious 8-voice Requiem is a sumptuous earful, but fellow Êvora alumnus Maghalhães knows how to turn an ear-catching detail with only five voices. Compelling nobility and sincerity all round' (BBC Music Magazine)

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