THE SUSPICIOUS CHEESE LORDS: Maestro di Capella

The Suspicious Cheese Lords

Maestro di Capella

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Renaissance choral music, a world premiere recording of the sacred music of Elzear Genet (1470-1547), Maestro of the papal chapel.

tracks

1 Gabriel Angelus
2 Tibi Christe
3 Virgo Prudentissima
4 Jubilate Deo
5 Crucem Tuam Adoramus
6 Magnificat
7 Haec Est Illa Dulcis Rosa
8 Missa Se Mieulx Ne Vient - Kyrie
9 Missa Se Mieulx Ne Vient - Gloria
10 Missa Se Mieulx Ne Vient - Credo
11 Missa Se Mieulx Ne Vient - Sanctus
12 Missa Se Mieulx Ne Vient - Agnus Dei
13 Pange Lingua

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The Suspicious Cheese Lords, a male a cappella ensemble, performs concerts and provides church service music for the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Although specializing in music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, their repertoire ranges from Gregorian chant to original composition.

Maestro di Capella: Music of Elzéar Genet (Carpentras) is the Cheese Lords' first CD, and a world premiere recording.
Elzéar Genet (c. 1470-1548) sang in the papal chapel under Pope Julius II, and thereafter in the court of the French king Louis XII. On November 5, 1513, he became the first composer to be named Master of the Papal Chapel. Working for Pope Leo X, who, in the Medici tradition, was a lavish patron of the arts, Genet's musical output became exclusively sacred. Although Genet was the first composer to publish his collected works, his music has unjustly fallen into near-oblivion. By the late 16th century, Genet's works had been replaced with newer settings by Palestrina and other composers. Sadly, there are no documented performances of his music again until the early 19th century.

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  • Another Renaissance master resurrected from undeserved oblivion
    author: H.G. Lamont

    This transcendently beautiful recording of the long-forgotten Elzear Genet takes pride of place among my CDs and makes me wonder how many other such wonderful motets and masses are sadly gathering dust in some library. This disc is such a joy that I have not even gotten around to hear the other CDs I ordered at the same time. Top marks to the Cheese Lords.

  • Great!
    author: C. St. Jean

    Crisp, reverent, solid: The Suspicious Cheese Lords deliver on this recording!

  • Peaceful, soaring, lovely
    author: GFP

    A wonderful entry in early sacred music. Peacful, uplifiting, beautiful blending of voices. THe closest I've found to a male Anonymous 4.

  • Was beautiful to listen to
    author: sheila Winckler

    Very beautiful music,,,very peaceful to listen...voices and arrangements were great...very impressive and prayerful...

  • He who sings prays twice
    author: Ellen Micheletti

    Whenever I play this CD, I am surrounded by a sense of the Sacred, and a sense of Wonder and Awe as well. Sublime CD Cheese Lords!

  • Wonderful Renaissance Choral Music
    author: George Loegel

    The best sacred renaissance choral music conveys the sense of music as the highest praise of God. This wonderfully spacious recording conveys the sense of wonder and harmony that, to me, characterizes the divine spark of music.

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