Orlandus Lassus' Prophetiae Sibyllarum is the earliest known and weirdest of his 2,000 or so works, and it is isn't recorded very often. Although the first modern edition of Prophetiae Sibyllarum appeared as early as 1937, it was absent from record until Miroslav Venhoda and the Prague Madrigal Singers recorded it in Paris in 1963. In the four decades that followed it has achieved about half a dozen performances on record, despite its revered status as a milestone within the Renaissance "Musica Reservata," not to mention ...
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Orlandus Lassus' Prophetiae Sibyllarum is the earliest known and weirdest of his 2,000 or so works, and it is isn't recorded very often. Although the first modern edition of Prophetiae Sibyllarum appeared as early as 1937, it was absent from record until Miroslav Venhoda and the Prague Madrigal Singers recorded it in Paris in 1963. In the four decades that followed it has achieved about half a dozen performances on record, despite its revered status as a milestone within the Renaissance "Musica Reservata," not to mention one of the quirkiest compositions found on the other side of Gesualdo. Set to 12 anonymous poems that first accompanied portraits of the Sibyls in a 1505 edition of Filippo de Barbieri's treatise Sibyllarum et prophetarum de Christo vaticinia, Prophetiae Sibyllarum is one of the only sacred Renaissance works steeped in pagan lore, devoted to the Sibyls who prophesied to the ancient Greeks and Romans. While in antiquity there was only one "historical" sibyl, by the time Barbieri's...
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