Album Description

Portuguese sacred music of this period inhabits a distinctive sound world that can be seen as a continuation and development of the Spanish style of composers such as Morales and Guerrero, but it is often allied to a tantalizing harmonic richness and colour that is found nowhere else. Its individuality parallels the new and astonishing Manueline architecture in which much of it would have been performed.

Artists

The Sixteen
Harry Christophers

Track Listing:

Manuel Cardoso (1566-1650)
1. Sitivit anima mea 
2. Tulerunt lapides 
3. Non mortui  

Missa Regina Caeli
4. Kyrie
5. Gloria
6. Credo
7. Sanctus / Benedictus
8. Agnus Dei

Duarte Lôbo (c.1565-1646)

9. Audivi vocem de caelo 
10. Pater peccavi 

Missa Pro Defunctis a 8
11. Introitus 
12. Kyrie 
13. Graduale 
14. Offertorium 
15. Sanctus/Benedictus 
16. Agnus Dei 
17. Lux aeterna 

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 62.51