Palestrina: Missa Assumpta est Maria & Missa Sicut lilium
CDGIM020  71 minutes 22 seconds
'Peter Phillips has here deliberately paired two sharply contrasted parody Masses … the former … is marvellously bright and open and is given a correspondingly outgoing performance, while the latter, inflected with chromaticism and melodic intervals that constantly fall back on themselves, is darker-hued and more plaintive, a mood well captured here in the intensity of the singing. Th ...