What is the best Cypriano de Rores albums you ever heard or ever will?

[Carlo Gesualdo]

First and foremost, this is by far, the toughest question, someone like me had to answer...

So who has a trillion buck for me to answer this properly, I'm a devotee to Cypriano de Rore one of my favourite all-time out of ten composers or twenty.

They were a Cypriano de Rore I purchased from presto classical, yes yes, but was it the best rendition, before that I also heard the fabulous work of Cypriano's on Brabant ensemble, a British lead Stephen Rice and Belgian ensemble. There was also Graindelavoix quintessential indeed.

Now I ask myself whit a gun in my hand playing Russian Roulette safer than to bash an ensemble as more skillfully than the others, be a butcher of guilt an accusator...

So there I will try to answer this the best I can possibly can what about mister sir Anthony Rooley and his godlike in sound, the ensemble called the consort of musicke, I had this on vinyl.

But since I discover Cypriano de Rore whit Brabant ensemble I, said I, I the I, I have to be bias whit this ensemble so in the end thanks mister Stephen Rice, sir I love what you done whit De Rore, le grand art, la perfection.

My verdict's one of Stephen Rice's success story, that it's a fine a great a narly album.
They could be zillion other Cypriano de Rores yet I'm biased, but I give graindelavoix a decent note.

The music the De Rore left is hudge, mildly superb dissonant music of the Franco-Flemish of the Burgundy kingdom.

This is my testimony, yet I'm not quite sold on the CPO version of his works. For me, he is not just a giant of inventive innovative polyphony of taste, not just a giant but a titan in the Burgundian's school matrix of time and era.
So there now were my trillion dollars lol?

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[Carlo Gesualdo]

Yep forgot that one too, this is such a shame and i have it and love Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel is a saviour of polyphony in other words a hero.

[Mandryka]

I've never heard his masses, or if I have I've forgotten.

Of the motets and madrigals, with the exception of the Petrarch cycle, a whole CD of De Rore is a bit much for me. So the De Rore which means most to me tends to be in collections with music by other composers - the CDs by Hilliard (not necessarily La Vergine, for that I for some unclear reason tend to listen more to Erik Van Nevel, but the madrigals on the Italian and English Madrigals CDs), Musica Secreta and Quinta Vox come to mind.

Still not sure about what to say about Blue Heron's CD, other than the platitude that it's good they created this music on record.

And if you're interested in the history then there's a gesualdoesque recording by Deller Consort, very "deeply felt."

[Mirror Image]

Shouldn't this be in the 'Great Recordings' section of the forum?