Masses, Responsories & Motets

Almeno Gonçalves (tenor) & Cupertinos, Luís Toscano

Niet minder dan drie belangrijke eerste opnames van werken van Duarte Lobo staan ??op dit album dat de ontluikende reputatie van Cupertinos moet versterken. Dit is muziek waarmee ze een natuurlijke verwantschap voelen, getuige deze intense, idiomatische uitvoeringen.

Lôbo, D:
 Alma redemptoris mater
 Audivi vocem de caelo

 Beata viscera
 
 Christmas Responsories a 4 (first recording):
  Hodie nobis caelorum rex
  Hodie nobis de caelo
  Quem vidistis pastores?
  O magnum mysterium
  Beata Dei genitrix
  Sancta et immaculata
  Beate Viscera
  Verbum caro

  Missa Elisabeth Zachariae
  Missa Sancta Maria (first recording)
 
"For aficionados of Golden Age polyphony, this is all self-recommending...That’s all without Cupertinos’ distinctive qualities, which are as evident here as on their debut: a very open sound, with the astringent tones of the female singers very much to the fore thanks to an equally bright acoustic."
Gramophone Magazine - October 2020

"Directed by tenor Luís Toscano, Cupertinos is highly responsive to Lobo’s subtly varied settings which, in turn, reflect the nuances of text and liturgy...Throughout, the ensemble’s candid, unwavering sound, chiselled diction and incisive articulation reveal Lobo’s masterly contrapuntal writing."
BBC Music Magazine - November 2020 *****(Performance) / ****(Recording)