Duarte Lobo: Masses, Responsories & Motets

Duarte Lobo is widely considered the greatest composer of Portugal’s “golden age” of polyphonic music (the early 17th century), and one of the few whose music has never fallen entirely out of sight over the ensuing centuries. This is a monumental collection of his sacred and liturgical works, bookended by the parody Christmas Masses Missa Sancta Maria and Missa Elisabeth Zachariae and including a number of responsories, a setting of Magnum mysterium, and much more. As always, the Cupertinos ensemble gives a lustrous account of these works.