Jacob Handl
Jacob Handl (1550–1591), also known as Jacobus Gallus, was a late-Renaissance composer whose sacred output runs to hundreds of works, from intimate motets to large polychoral writing.
Born in Carniola and later active in Moravia and Bohemia, he mixed High Renaissance polyphony with the Venetian coro spezzato manner. His four-volume Opus musicum (1586–1590) gathers hundreds of motets spanning the church year, alongside masses and shorter moralising pieces.
The eight-part Pater noster is heard on Beatus Vir (MD 3220).
Compositions by Jacob Handl appear on
Beatus Vir
Recorded live on their 1999 European tour, the Choir of Ormond College under Douglas Lawrence presents small-scale sacred works in up to eight parts by Palestrina, Gesualdo, Handl, Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Stanford and Rheinberger.
Soul
Douglas Lawrence OAM leads the Australian Chamber Choir through sacred music spanning Renaissance polyphony, early Baroque splendour and African-American spirituals.