Orlando di Lasso

Orlando di Lasso

Solisten der Vokalkapelle der Theatinerkirche München
Robert Mehlhart, conductor and organ
Christoph Eglhuber, lute

On this album, the ensemble "Vokalkapelle der Theatinerkirche in München" presents a previously unknown mass, "Missa Cantorum", the "Singers' Mass", which has only now been clearly attributed to the composer Orlando di Lasso by the musicologist Prof. Christian Leitmeir. This results in a highly interesting stylistic and historical relationship to the well-known Missa Venatorum, the "Hunters' Mass". Around 150 years later, the latter was given a stylistically very sensitive addition of a third voice in the Benedictus by the Munich Kapellmeister successor to Orlando di Lasso, Guiseppe A. Bernabei, which was also entered in the autograph - further evidence of the long history of reception of this mass after Lasso's death in Munich. The Missa Cantorum and the 3-part version of the Benedictus of the Missa Venatorum are world premiere recordings.

Orlando di Lasso: Magnificat Octavi Toni, Missa Venatorum, Missa Cantorum by Orlando di Lasso