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Review title: The renaissance mass, the symphony of its day
Product review: This disc of Renaissance polyphony features 4 genres: a chanson (the popular ballads of the day, given a learned treatment), a mass, a motet, and madrigals on Latin texts. The chanson features false relations (not helped by a momentary tenor unsteadiness) which the booklet should have explained as, to the uninitiated, they sound like wrong notes. The Mass is beautifully complex, based on a motet by Josquin. If this is of any significance, it should have been included.Van Nevel's group is called The Huelgas Ensemble, but, on record at least, it is never the same line up. However, they generally achieve the same lucid choir sound for him (here including distant doves between the Credo and the Et incarnatus, and a sparrow in the Agnus dei. That's a rural venue for you!). There is something for choral conductors to learn from this. The voices are not all ideal, but they blend and respond superbly in some wonderful music.
