Josquin - Missa Pange Lingua
The master of metamorphosis: that too is Josquin Desprez. In his masses he prefers working with existing material, by means of skillful cutting and pasting, literal quotation, or imaginative paraphrase. In the Missa Pange lingua, for example, the basic plainchant melody becomes like putty in Josquin’s expert hands. With this masterpiece, Pedro Teixeira and the Portuguese Officium Ensemble (one ...