Guerrero: Missa L'Homme Armé, etc - review

Ensemble La Sestina/Giardina(Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)Francisco Guerrero composed 19 masses, but only one of them, the Missa L'Homme Armé, based on the medieval song that provided inspiration to generations of composers from Machaut onwards, was scored for high voices only, with two soprano lines, alto and tenor. Based upon Morales's five-mass of the same name and shorter and more straightforward than Guerrero's other mass settings, it probably dates from his youth in the mid 1540s, and perhaps ...

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