Guerrero / Lobo: Flight Of Angels

   in Early Music Today (Jun, 2015)
Francisco Guerrero and Alonso Lobo, master and student provide the music sung here by the Sixteen under the direction of its founder, Harry Christophers. Guerrero was one of Spain’s leading 16th-century composers. He travelled widely, mainly to Italy but also to the Holy Land about which he later wrote in a popular account ‘El Viaje de Hierusalem’. Most of his life was spent in Seville where he served eventually as maestro de capilla at the cathedral. Lobo assisted him there, as well as learning from him before being appointed maestro de capilla of Toledo Cathedral. Five years after Guerrero’s death in 1599 Lobo returned to Seville assuming the title and duties …