Duarte Lobo, not to be confused with the Alonso Lobo familiar to anyone who has ever sung in a university glee club, is little known today, although, in his time, he was renowned far beyond his native Portugal. One might think of him as falling into the line of Iberian composers who followed Palestrina; by the early 16th century, when he hit his peak, his music was decidedly conservative. This release by the small choir Cupertinos has the quality of a labor of love, with some of the music featuring a reconstructed missing ...
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Duarte Lobo, not to be confused with the Alonso Lobo familiar to anyone who has ever sung in a university glee club, is little known today, although, in his time, he was renowned far beyond his native Portugal. One might think of him as falling into the line of Iberian composers who followed Palestrina; by the early 16th century, when he hit his peak, his music was decidedly conservative. This release by the small choir Cupertinos has the quality of a labor of love, with some of the music featuring a reconstructed missing part, and most of it being performed here for the first time. The two masses are both examples of the parody mass, i.e., a mass that expands upon a preexisting polyphonic model. Here both the models are motets by Francisco Guerrero, the second of which draws on the tale of Elizabeth Zacharias, the sexagenarian mother of John the Baptist. Especially since both masses rely on contrapuntal artifice, explained at length in a booklet note that is downloadable as well as being included with...
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Very good. Includes disc(s), case, booklet, and back artwork. May show slight wear. Disc(s) are professionally cleaned and may contain only light scratches that do not effect functionality.