August 2021

Josquin & The Franco-Flemish School II

More from the vast Warner archives, including Josquin’s secular works.

Composer: Josquin des Prez (1440-1521), Gilles Binchois (c.1400-1460), Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474), Johannes Ockeghem (c.1410-1497), Heinrich Isaac (c.1450-1571), Pierre de La Rue (1460-1518), Thomas Crecquillon (c.1505-after1557), Philippe de Monte (1521-1603), Adrian Willaert (1490-1562), Roland de la Lassus (1532-1594), Giaches de Wert (1535-1596)

CD Info: catalogue number 190296730849

Josquin & The Franco-Flemish School I

In honor of the 500th anniversary of Josquin’s death, Warner has issued a 34 CD set of rare and mostly out-of-print material from their vast catalogue; this week, motets recorded 50 years ago never released on CD.

Composer: Josquin des Prez (1440-1521), Gilles Binchois (c.1400-1460), Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474), Johannes Ockeghem (c.1410-1497), Heinrich Isaac (c.1450-1571), Pierre de La Rue (1460-1518), Thomas Crecquillon (c.1505-after1557), Philippe de Monte (1521-1603), Adrian Willaert (1490-1562), Roland de la Lassus (1532-1594), Giaches de Wert (1535-1596)

CD Info: catalogue number 190296730849

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Part 3: The Sacred Monteverdi

Considered perhaps the finest Monteverdi interpreter of our time, the Italian director of the Concerto Italiano guides us through the vast 1610 Marian Vespers.

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643), Giovanni Gabrieli (1554 - 1612) , Francesco Usper (1561 - 1641), Giovanni Battista Buonamente (1595 - 1642)

CD Info: Naive/Opus 111 CD OPS 30403, Naive CD OP 30557

Back to France

Les Arts Florissants are back with Volume 3 of their “Airs sérieux et à boire” series; a remarkable tribute to the music inspired by the poetry by the Comtesse de la Suze; and a world-premiere recording of a ballet by Lully.

Composer: Claude Le Jeune, Étienne Moulinié, Pierre Guédron, Antoine Boesset, Eustache Du Caurroy, Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), Sébastien Le Camus, François Campion, François Dufault, Le Sieur de Machy, Bertrand de Bacilly, Michel Lambert, Marin Marais, Henry Du Mont, Monsieur Royer, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Honoré d'Ambruis, Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin

CD Info: Harmonia Mundi CD HAF 8905318, Aparte CD AP255, Harmonia Mundi CD HMM 902674.75

More Musical Adventures

Estonian folk hymns and Runic songs; crossover folk ensemble Polaris takes us to Scotland and Norway; and the rugby players who formed a group performing songs from the Pyrenean part of old Gascony.

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CD Info: Harmonia Mundi CD HMU 907488, Pipistrelle Music CD PIP 1211, Alpha CD 506