Desprez, Josquin / Jean Titelouze
Missa Pange Lingua / Three Versets On Pange Lingua
Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records

Stunning 45rpm UK Original. “This Recording Reveals That Even A Large-Scale Piece Like This Mass Based On A Plainsong Tune Is Immediately Attractive And Readily Understandable. His Technique Is Less Learnedly Contrapuntal Than Based On Thematic Repetition And Development. He Takes A Fragment Of The Plainsong To Which Other Voice Parts Are Added; He Repeats The Phrase, Perhaps With A Different Combination Of Voices, Then Repeats It Yet Again Completing It With An Extension From Which The Next Plainsong-Based Phrase Will Arise. Repetitions Make The Material Memorable, The Lack Of Intricate Counterpoint Assisting Its Obvious Progress. The Choir Of St John's College, Cambridge Sweeps The Music Along With That Sense Of Phrase Which Comes With Constant Performance Of Sixteenth-Century Music. The Boys Have An Edge To Their Voices (Or Is It Simply One Or Two Of Them Which Give That Character To The Whole Line?) Which I Find A Little Disturbing When Put Against The Rather Smooth Tone Of The Men; But Many People Will Like It.” D.A. Gramophone Magazine