De Profundis is a male-voice group that sings Renaissance polyphony, currently engaged in a 12-year project to record Morales's complete masses and Magnificats
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So sad to hear of Bruno Turner's passing today at the age of 95. He was the doyen of Spanish renaissance musicologists, the driving force behind our Ribera, Vivanco, and Esquivel albums, and a ready source of knowledge and encouragement for the Morales Project. A giant among men.
It's time for you Monday Wallow (TM).
From now until you start on your Advent calendar, the Marian antiphon of choice is the Salve regina. Here is Juan Esquivel's gorgeous setting - the piece that closed our 2020 Hyperion album of his music.
De Profundis is made up of some pretty fine singers. Here's most of the gang that just finished recording volume 5 of the Morales series.
But I know what you're asking yourself. What do we all do the rest of the time?
Here y'go...
Fab review (& top 10 place) for our CD in Spanish music mag RITMO:
“This superb recording demonstrates that Renaissance sacred music can be intense and inspired and can speak to a troubled world like our own. This series promises to be a milestone in [Morales's] discography.”
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Great review of the new album on the Gramophone website:
"The singers of De Profundis are in excellent voice throughout [and] the album is completed by an impressive recording of the Magnificat secundi toni [under] the ever-reliable Robert Hollingworth"
Buy/stream/download here: orcd.co/dpmoralesiii
This Sunday is the Feast of the Visitation when Mary extemporised the text of the Magnificat. Discussing our latest Morales CD, Radio 3 said "between the masses there's a beautiful Magnificat. I'm so happy they're going to be recording them all because they're not well known". 😁
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Our new album featured on BBC Radio 3's Essential Classics this morning. After playing a track the host, Georgia Mann, said, "I love the richness of the sound they make, a bit like several bottles of excellent red!"😄
(She then said it's out on Harmonia Mundi, but we know *that's* wrong, don't we?!)
It was ten years ago today that we gave a concert of music by Ribera in the glittering Sacristy of Toledo Cathedral - the highlight of our first Spanish tour. We've come a long way since then, but our commitment to the highlights of Spanish Renaissance sacred music is as stong as ever.
Another nice review of CD3, this time from Robert Hughill.
"Richness and imagination. The Morales Project moves to CORO and demonstrates the richness to be found in the composer's less-known masses when performing at the original pitch."
We could get used to all of this.
Thanks to all those who pre-ordered the new album or who have bought, downloaded, or streamed it since it was released last Friday.
I'm delighted to say that we've come it No. 6 in the Official Classical Chart!
If you've not yet got a copy, you can pick one up here: orcd.co/dpmoralesiii
Juan Esquivel, Eamonn Dougan, De Profundis · Esquivel: Missa Hortus conclusus, Magnificat & Motets · Song · 2020
Here's (most of) the group that sang in volume 5 of the Morales Project (coming out on CORO Records, Spring 2027) telling us what they do the rest of the time.
