This is music strict, pure and demanding. Four unaccompanied voices of the Hilliard Ensemble — David James, countertenor; Rogers Covey-Crump and John Potter, tenors; Gordon Jones, baritone — triumphantly negotiate the homophonic challenges of the Renaissance composer Orlando di Lasso. Born Lassus in Mons, Belgium in 1532, he moved to Mantua, Italy at the age […]
