About This Song
About "Lassus: Les meslanges: No. 26, La nuit froide et sombre" by The King's Singers
Night falls cold and dark in Lassus's chanson, and The King's Singers drape the polyphony in velvet shadow. Each voice is a lantern extinguished slowly. The emotional tension is exquisite: stillness pressing against a shiver of loneliness. You feel the chill of the text without a single word translated.
