佩納洛薩: 哀歌(西班牙文藝復興歌曲集) 紐約複音之聲 New York Polyphony / Penalosa – Lamentationes

紐約複音之聲

New York Polyphony

Renaissance music from Spain has come to mean the works of composers such as Tomas Luís de Victoria or Francisco Guerrero rather than their predecessors. But composers such as Francisco de Penalosa – who died in 1528, the same year that Guerrero was born – were musicians of genuine imagination and skill, whose work often shows a formidable individuality. The most recent edition of Penalosa's oeuvre lists 22 works as genuine: masses, lamentations, hymns and motets. From these, New York Polyphony have selected two highly expressive Lamentations, intended for services held during Holy Week and setting biblical texts bemoaning the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC. Besides two brief motets, Penalosa is also represented by sections from his Missa L'homme arme, one of the many examples from the 15th to the 17th century of cyclic masses based on secular melodies. These pieces by Penalosa are brought into relief by shorter works by his near-contemporary Pedro de Escobar – a deeply haunting setting of the beginning of the hymn Stabat Mater – and the aforementioned Francisco Guerrero. Guerrero is represented by Quae est ista, a setting of words from the Song of Songs which have inspired the composer to ecstatic cascades of notes. In contrast his Antes que comais a Dios, with a text in Spanish, is simple but effective, in a propulsive triple time.