Gloomy but glorious works that hope for the best while assuming for the worst, Lassus' setting of seven fuliginously serious but spiritually salubrious Psalms of David are sure to send shivers down the spine of anyone with a pessimistic cast of mind. The acapella performances of the all-male - two countertenors, three tenors and three basses - Henry's Eight is darkly hued, strongly rhythmic, deeply soulful, very expressive and absolutely true to the late Renaissance agony of Lassus's music.

The opposition of learned counterpoint (‘intellectum’) and a startling ‘uneducated’ cadence (‘non est intellectus’) in Beati quorum remissae and the vigorous depiction of God’s ‘hot displeasure’ in Domine, ne in furore tuo are just two among a multitude of highlights in the Eight’s subtle and flexible response to Lassus’s musical vivification of the word.

Lassus: Penitential Psalms. Performer: Henry's Eight. Conductor: Jonathan Brown. Composer: Orlando Lassus. Audio CD (March 14, 2006).

Translations of the penitential psalms were undertaken by some of the greatest poets in Renaissance England, including Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and Sir Philip Sidney Musical settings. Perhaps the most famous musical setting of all seven is by Orlande de Lassus, with his Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales of 1584. There are also fine settings by Andrea Gabrieli and by Giovanni Croce

Orlande de Lassus Composer miserere (1st part of Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales), motet for 5 voices Work. Eckehard Kiem Conductor, Dufay Ensemble Vocal Ensemble. 1. omine, ne in furore tuo arguas me. 3:34. Orlande de Lassus Composer. Beati quorum remissae sunt, (2nd part of Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales), motet (a5) Work. Regina Kabis Soprano, Eckehard Kiem Conductor, Dufay Ensemble Vocal Ensemble. 5. eati, quorum remissae sunt.

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Released: Mar 1, 1998. 1998 Hyperion Records Limited. More By Henry's Eight. See All. The Virgin and Christ-Child - Arcadelt, Mouton & Isaac. Gombert: Missa Tempore paschali & Other Sacred Music. Gombert: Credo & Other Sacred Music.

Orlande de Lassus (also Roland de Lassus, Orlando di Lasso, Orlandus Lassus, Orlande de Lattre or Roland de Lattre; 1532, possibly 1530 – 14 June 1594) was a composer of the late Renaissance, chief representative of the mature polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish school, and considered to be one of the three most famous and influential musicians in Europe at the end of the 16th century (the other two being Palestrina and Victoria).