Hieronymus Praetorius: Missa Tulerunt Dominum meum Siglo de Oro / Patrick Allies

Though less well known than his namesake Michael, as organist at Hamburg's Jacobi kirche Hieronymus Praetorius was ore of the city's most important cultural figures. So it is remarkable that his magnificent mass for Holy Week has until now remained unrecorded. Some four hundred years of ter it was first performed, Siglo de Oro present it as it might have been heard in seventeenth-century Hamburg, weaving in motets from some of Praetorius's most gifted contemporaries. Bavarian Hans Leo Hassler, Netherlandish Orlande de Lassus, Venetian Andrea Gabrieli, and the itinerant Jacob Handl -each lends a motet to complement the unfolding liturgical journey, from the quiet solemnity of Maundy Thursday through to the exultant joy of Easter Day. 'beautifully recorded. aristocratically executed ... Here is a choir in which all the elements aro hold in perfect equilibrium —BBC Music Magazine. April 2018, CHORAL CHOICE