Rating: 3/5
Review:
Rather disappointing
I love much of Michael Noone's work, but I'm afraid this
isn't one of his best recordings,
Guerrero's music is very fine, with a rich, distinctively
Spanish feel. It lends itself very well
to Noone's approach which mixes voices with contemporary instruments. His fabulous recording of Guerrero's Requiem
from 1999 adopts the same approach and remains a real favourite of mine. The
motets recorded here have much of the same quality but sadly, for me the same
can't be said of the Mass. The voices seem to lack the blend and balance
they need; there is little cohesion in the choral sound and too often
individual voices dominate inappropriately.
As a result the music loses much of its beauty and spiritual power and I
found it a disappointment.
I am sorry to be critical of a musician whom I admire
greatly, but this didn't do much for me and I'll be sticking to The Tallis
Scholars' excellent recording of this mass.
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