Lamentations de la Renaissance – Settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Orlando de Lassus, Robert White, Tiburtiano Massaino, and Marbrianus de Orto

The Lamentations of Jeremiah appear in the old Catholic liturgy only once a year--during Holy Week--yet during the Renaissance and Baroque eras, Lamentations became a separate compositional genre comparable to Masses, Magnificats, and Requiems....