Rating:5/5
Review:
Pilgrimage of grace
I love this disc - it is beautiful and thoroughly uplifting. The music and performances are delightful and (WARNING - sacrilege approaching!) I much prefer this version of Victoria's Missa O quam gloriosum to that of the Westminster Cathedral Choir, which has never moved me in the same way.
The tracks from the Codex Calixtinus and Libre Vermell are truly lovely, and the polyphonic motets by Lassus, Victoria and Clemens non Papa are exquisitely paced, pitched and sung, in my view. And there is a heart-stoppingly beautiful version of Mouton's Nesciens mater. It's a fabulous disc.
In addition, in the notes there's a very perceptive introduction by Gardiner and a scholarly but approachable analysis by the excellent Tess Knighton. It's a tad over-packaged for my taste, but that's a tiny quibble. Gardiner has fully earned his high reputation and this disc does that reputation full justice. Not to be missed.
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