Orlando, A Melancholic Portrait La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion

• 1 Lasso: Lectio prima, LV 209: Parce mihi domine 04:42
• 2 Lasso: Sextus Psalmus poenitentialis, LV 799: De Profundis clamavi 08:13
• 3 Lasso: La nuict froide et sombre, LV 578 04:09
• 4 Lasso: Sine textu 7 (I) 01:50
• 5 Lasso: No giorno t'haggio, LV 32 03:07
• 6 Lasso: Dulces exuviae, LV 385 03:44
• 7 Lasso: Super flumina Babylonis, LV 325 02:29
• 8 Lasso: Luxuriosa res vinum 02:14
• 9 Lasso: Prophetiae sibyllarum: Carmina chromatico, LV 1048 02:13
• 10 Lasso: Quam pulchra es, LV 838 00:32
• 11 Lasso: Susannen frumb, LV 560 03:09
• 12 Lasso: Allala pia calia, LV 667 02:25
• 13 Lasso: Peccantem me quotidie, LV 43 03:30
• 14 Lasso: In monte oliveti, LV 334 03:36
• 15 Lasso: Memento peccati tui, LV 1038 03:26
• 16 Lasso: La cortesia, LV 33 02:36
• 17 Lasso: Si du malheur 02:51
• 18 Lasso: Si textu 7 (II) 02:05
• 19 Lasso: Eripe me, LV 476 03:32
• 20 Lasso: Une puce j'ai dedans l'oreille, LV 582 02:32
• 21 Lasso: Requiem à 5, LV 963: Introït 06:28
• Total Runtime 01:09:23

Info for Orlando, A Melancholic Portrait

Orlando di Lasso (b. 1532 in Mons) was one of the most important and prolific composers in the whole of sixteenth-century Europe. Famed as a singer from boyhood, he escaped several kidnapping attempts ordered by princes who coveted his talent for their courts. Di Lasso is a fascinating character: an extravagant and provocative musical figure, an adventurous artist and cultivated polyglot. On being asked to provide the soundtrack for a documentary on di Lasso by Joachim Thôme, Simon-Pierre Bestion became immersed in the composer's multiverse. This album, an extension of the music for that film, projects the iconoclast di Lasso into our 21st century world. As Bestion explains: 'I made a deliberate choice here to interpret this music with a great freedom of instrumentation and of timbre. What is more, even though there were no drums or saxophones in di Lasso’s day, the performer was free to choose whichever or the ornamentation he wanted.' Join La Tempête for this unpredictable, fantasy-enriched exploration of the timeless realm of Orlando.

La Tempete
Simon-Pierre Bestion, arrangements, piano, organ, synthesiser, Fender Rhodes, conductor

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