Da Jakob nu das Kleid, by Ludwig Senfl (ca.1486-ca.1542)

Quire Cleveland with guest conductor Scott Metcalfe
St. John's Cathedral, Cleveland, April 13, 2011
A 4v. setting by Ludwig Senfl (ca.1486-ca.1543) of the grief-stricken Jacob's lament at the presumption of his son Joseph's death. It is one of the most powerful and rhetorical musical settings of the sixteenth century, as Senfl coordinates passages of polyphony with somber and moving sections of homophony.