The Recovering Choir Director

Artist/Choir/Ensemble: Ars Nova
Director: Bo Holten
Label: Naxos

From the liner notes (© 1995 Elizabeth Kahn):

The Lagrime di San Pietro was the last of Lasso’s enormous output, finished only six weeks before his death. The work is a group of twenty spiritual madrigals (madrigali spirituali) representing the remorse of St Peter for having denied Jesus….The text is taken from a longer, but fragmentary work by the poet Luigi Tansillo (d. 1568), written in the classic ottavo rime of Italian narrative poetry (rhyme scheme ABABABCC).

English translation available in the liner notes.