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Laudate pueri Dominum, RV600n. Stabat mater, RV621b. Deus tuorum militum, RV612e. Sanctorum meritis, RV620d.

The belated re-emergence from the mists of the past of the Spanish poet and dramatist Lope Felix de Vega Carpio should serve to increase our awareness of the musical settings by even lesser known seventeenth-century Spanish composers.

As ever in such company, Stanford shows himself the master, and it is interesting to observe how his skill and assurance increased between Op. 12 (the A major settings) and Op. 115 (C). He also brings out the best in the choir, fine in tone, purposeful in style. They are also notably well...

The masque and preceding antimasque are rather less commonly to be seen today than in seventeenth-century England, if only because William Lawes's Cupid and Death is the only one of the period to have survived in detail. Why then not construct one from remaining fragments of other masques and...