Choir of Girton College, Cambridge; The Western Wyndes; Gabriel Kennedy; Ben Nolan; Gareth Wilson; Jeremy West - Marc'Antonio Ingegneri: Choral Music, Vol. 5 - Motets for the Liturgical Year

The Choir of Girton College, Cambridge, continues its pioneering exploration of the music of the Italian Renaissance master Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (c. 1536/36-92) with a journey through the liturgical year, as mirrored in Ingegneri's motets. A 'concept album' of Renaissance polyphony may be an unusual undertaking, but this one illustrates how Ingegneri took his lead from the emotions implicit in each major celebration of the church - from sorrow and awe to joy and jubilation - expressed in music of extraordinary beauty, belying the internal complexity that gives it its emotional power.