Lassus Masses and Motets

If contemporary audience reaction can be taken as an accurate guide to such matters, then Orlande de Lassus must be reckoned the most successful and widely celebrated composer of his day.   The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford has a long and distinguished tradition stretching back to its foundation by Cardinal Wolsey when John Taverner was the first director of music.  Under its present director Stephen Darlington the Choir records exclusively for Nimbus and following a successful disc of works by Palestrina (NI5100) they now turn their attention to his great Renaissance contemporary Lassus.