This mesmerizing album features beautiful liturgical choral works by Josquin Des Prez and Tomás Luis de Victoria recrafted for the intimate forces of solo voice and accompanying vihuela (a type of lute). Tenor John Potter’s aim is to show just how adaptable centuries-old music is—and how much of it would have been rewritten and shaped for available voices and instruments. To hear Victoria’s large-scale mass Missa Surge Propera in this way is to have it revealed once more in brand-new colors.
- Fretwork & Christopher Wilson
- Ellen Hargis, Paul O'Dette, Andrew Lawrence-King & Hille Perl
- Red Byrd, Rose Consort of Viols & Timothy Roberts
- Marc Lewon, Ensemble Leones, Baptiste Romain & Els Janssens-Vanmunster