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Reviewer:
David Vickers
Francesc Valls spent most of his career in Barcelona. His late Missa Regalis
(1740) is a five-voice contrapuntal Mass composed for King John V of Portugal.
Extraordinary sequences of dissonant suspensions and harmonic invention (‘Qui
tollis’) and a profoundly beautiful ‘Crucifixus’ exemplify the technical
precision, shaded sonorities and articulate polyphonic detail achieved by the
Choir of Keble College, Oxford – also qualities contributed by Joseph Crouch
(bass violin), Inga Klaucke (dulcian) and Edward Higginbottom (organ). Director
Matthew Martin plays the large fourmanual organ of St John’s College, Oxford, in
several tiento pieces by earlier Spanish Baroque composers Francisco Correa de
Arauxo and Juan Cabanilles. At only just over 40 minutes, the album is not
generously filled – but Valls’s Mass is fascinating and the music-making is
top-notch. |
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