Gombert: Chansons and Motets cover
Released

As the popularity of Renaissance choral music has grown in recent decades, one of the most common ways of presenting a composer’s works has been to create programs that put sacred songs alongside secular ones. On this recording, the excellent Capella Alamire ensemble presents both sacred motets and love songs by Nicolas Gombert, a composer of the Franco-Flemish School who flourished in what is now northern France in the early 16th century.

Rick Anderson

Suggestions
In Praise of St. Columba: The Sound World of the Celtic Church cover

In Praise of St. Columba: The Sound World of the Celtic Church

Geoffrey Webber, Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Bach: Missæ Breves, BWV 232-236 cover

Bach: Missæ Breves, BWV 232-236

Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Perpetual Twilight cover

Perpetual Twilight

University College Dublin Choral Scholars, Desmond Earley
Antonin Dvorák: Symphony No. 6; American Suite Op. 98b cover

Antonin Dvorák: Symphony No. 6; American Suite Op. 98b

Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, James Gaffigan
O Crux Benedicta: Lent and Holy Week at the Sistine Chapel cover

O Crux Benedicta: Lent and Holy Week at the Sistine Chapel

Massimo Palombella, Coro Della Cappella Sistina, Sistine Chapel Choir
Kerll: Missa Non Sine Quare cover

Kerll: Missa Non Sine Quare

Fabio Bonizzoni, La Risonanza
Messiah cover

Messiah

Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson, Paul Elliott, Carolyn Watkinson, Christopher Hogwood, David Thomas, Academy of Ancient Music
Arvo Pärt: Adam's Lament cover

Arvo Pärt: Adam's Lament

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Sinfonietta Riga, Latvian Radio Choir, Vox Clamantis, Tõnu Kaljuste