Love Divine – new CD released February 2025

Love Divine features music by Phillipe de Monte, drawing on a motet by Cipriano de Rore. Musical material is embedded throughout this parody mass, which reflects a mature and assured mastery of counterpoint. The disc goes on to explore two composers featured by luminatus vocal ensemble in concerts this year. Tiburtio Massaino and Ippolito Baccusi. … Read more

Messiah – an oratorio by GF Handel

Messiah remains Handel’s best-known work, with performances particularly popular during the Advent season, although also it also covers the Passion and contemplation of its significance. Handel made numerous revisions to his manuscript score, and these were designed to match the forces available for the 1742 Dublin premiere. Surviving manuscripts contain radically different settings of many … Read more

Harmonies of heaven and earth

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CD review

O Beata Virgo Maria – Review by Laudate Magazine “O Beata Virgo Maria is a fine disc with much to appeal to lovers of a cappella mixed-voice ensembles” CD review: Hugh Benham Review published in: Laudate Magazine

Harmonies of heaven and earth

A collection of rare Renaissance pieces and contemporary repertoire. Cipriano de Rore (1515-1565) Ad te levavi oculos meos Philippe de Monte (1521-1603) Kyrie Missa Ad te levavi oculos meos Pedro de Cristo (1545-1618) O Magnum Mysterium Philippe de Monte (1521-1603) Gloria Missa Ad te levavi oculos meos Ippolito Baccusi (1550-1609) Salve regina Philippe de Monte … Read more