Newly discovered music by a Spanish Renaissance master

“The discovery of an unknown letter or biographical document pertaining to a major composer is sufficient to set musicological circles buzzing. So imagine Spanish Renaissance specialist Michael Noone’s exhilaration on identifying a sizeable clutch of motets as the work of the great Spanish polyphonist Cristóbal de Morales. There are more new discoveries than could fit onto a single CD, but for once the much-misused marketing label “world premiere recording’ is actually justified. What’s more, most of the “new’ works appear to date from Morales’s time at Toledo Cathedral (1545-47) when it had been previously been assumed that he had nearly ceased composing, probably for reasons of health. So Noone’s discovery really is something to celebrate.”

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