Program: #21-44 Air Date: Oct 25, 2021
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We return to the Josquin & the Franco-Flemish School set with more previously-unreleased CD material, including the Capella Antiqua of Munich, the Vienna Recorder Ensemble, and more from David Munrow.
N.B.—All of the music on this program is from the boxed set from the Warner Classics label Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School. It’s a 34-CD compilation, and is catalogue number 190296730849.
Active in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the composers of the Franco-Flemish School included such brilliant and diverse figures as Binchois, Dufay, des Prez, Obrecht, de La Rue, Isaac, Roland de Lassus, Willaert and de Wert. Spanning two hundred years of Western music history, the School flourished throughout the Renaissance as the language of music underwent the gradual shift from ancient modality to the tonality that signalled the dawn of the Baroque aesthetic.
As well as commemorating the central figure of Josquin des Prez (1440–1521), this set includes many other major works of the Franco-Flemish School, encompassing the various genres illustrated and developed by its members—secular songs in fixed or free form, motets, polyphonic Masses, psalm settings, and so on. These compositions are captured in all their striking beauty by such renowned performers as the Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Taverner Consort, The Hilliard Ensemble and The King’s Singers.
Polyphony at its peak, the proximity of the sacred and the profane and an astonishing modernity of thought—all these qualities explain why this music still has such immediacy for us today.
2021 marks the 500th anniversary of Josquin des Prez’s death on 27 August (c.1440–1521). His stature reflects the prestige enjoyed by the Franco-Flemish School in the European music scene of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
In addition to its existing French lands, the Duchy’s possessions also eventually included the duchies of Bar, Lorraine, Luxembourg and Brabant, and the counties of Nevers, Rethel, Artois and Vermandois. The Franco-Flemish School takes its name from this vast expanse of territory. Architecture, sculpture, painting and music all benefited from Burgundian ambition and together disseminated a new vision of art throughout Europe as the continent moved into the era of humanism and the Renaissance.
In that vision mankind was considered as the peak of Divine Creation, and the duty of art was to glorify both human intelligence and its application to the creative act. On a musical level it was also seeking to communicate with the greatest number of people: this led to the development of a new kind of polyphonic song designed and adapted for private practice.
That rich artistic movement has been a pillar of the music history in several aspects: vocal, instrumental, sacred (masses, motets…), secular (chansons, dances, madrigals…)
This 34-CD box exemplifies all these aspects through a large panel of characteristic composers around Josquin des Prez: 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–after 1557), Philippe de Monte (1521–1603), Adrian Willaert (1490–1562), Roland de la Lassus (1532–1594), Giaches de Wert (1535–1596) and many others.
These works, too little known, are here performed by a splendid ensemble cast, all pioneers in the historically informed movement: Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Hilliard Ensemble, King’s Singers, Early Music Consort of London, Syntagma Musicum…
This 34-CD box encompasses benchmark recordings and includes 7 albums available for the first time on CD—remastered from original tapes by Studio Art & Son, Annecy.
CD 1
Binchois—Chansons
CD 2
Dufay, Vide, Binchois...
Le Banquet du vœu 1454, Music at the Court of Burgundy
CD 3
Dufay & Binchois
The Art of Courtly Love, the Court of Burgundy
CD 4–7
Dufay
Missa ‘Se la face ay pale’, Missa ‘Ecce ancilla Domini’, Proprium ‘De angelis Dei officium’, Missa ‘L’homme armé’, Chansons & Motets
CD 8–9
Dufay, Binchois...
Dufay and his time
CD 10–11
Ockeghem
Missa pro defunctis, Missa ‘Mi-mi’, Missa prolationum, Marian motets
CD 12–16
Josquin des Prez
Missa ‘Pange lingua’, Missa ‘Ave Maris Stella’, Missa ‘Hercules Dux Ferrariae’, Miserere mei Deus, Motets, Chnasons, Plainchants
CD 17
Josquin des Prez, Clereau, Chardavonne, le Jeune, Sermisy, Sandrin...
French Chansons from the Renaissance
CD 18–19
Josquin des Prez, Isaac, Agricola, Ghizeghem, Ockeghem, Brumel...
The Art of the Netherlands
CD 20–21
Isaac
Missa super ‘O praeclara’, Commune festorum beatae Mariae Virginis, Missa Paschale
CD 22
De Monte
Missa 8 vocum 'La dolce vista', Chanosns, Motets, Madrigals
CD 23–24
De La Rue
Missa pro defunctis, Missa ‘Cum iocunditate’, Chansons, Motets
CD 25
Crecquillon—Chansons & Motets
CD 26–31
Lassus
Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales, Motets, Chansons, madrigals
CD 32
De Wert—Il settimo libro de madrigali 1581
CD 33
Willaert—Sacred & Secular Vocal & Instrumental works
CD 34
Dufay, Ockeghem, Obrechy, Josquin des Prez...
Recorder Music from the Renaissance, Netherlands
Susato—Dances
Works
Agricola, Alexander
Comme femme desconfortee
De tous biens playne
Fortuna desperata
Andrieu, Francois
Armes, amours
Anonymous
Adieu ma tres belle maistresse
Au chant de l'alowette
Ave maris stella
Benedictus
De cuer je soupire
Ellende du hest vmb vanghen mich
Est-il conclu par un arret d'amour?
Guillaume se va chaufer
Heth sold ein meisken garn om win
Inviolata integra et casta es Maria
Kere dame
La Spagna
La guercia
Lute Dances (2)
Mijn morken gaf mij een jonck wijff
Musicorum decus et species
Praeter rerum seriem (plainchant)
Preambulum super re
Si je perdu
Tandernaken
Une foys avant que morir
Venise
Appenzeller, Benedictus
Je pers espoir
Musae Jovis
Barbireau, Jacobus
Een vroylic wesen
Basiron, Philippe
Salve Regina
Binchois, Gilles
Adieu, adieu mon joieulx souvenir
Adieu m'amour et ma maistresse
Adieu mes tres belles amours
Amoreux suy et me vient toute joye
Amours mercy de trespout non pooir
Bien puist
Deo gracias
De plus en plus se renouvelle
Dueil angoisseux
En regardent vostre tres doulx maintiens
Files a marier
Gloria, laus et honor
Jamais tant que je vous revoye
Je loe Amours et ma dame mercye
Je me recommande
Je ne fai tous jours
Je ne vis onques la pareille
Je vous salue
Les tres doulx yeux du viaire ma dame
Lune tres belle
Pour prison ne pour maladie
Se la belle n'a le voloir
Seulle egaree
Triste plaisir et douloureuse joie
Vostre tres doulx regart
Brassart, Johannes
O flos fragrans
Brumel, Antoine
Du Tout Plongiet
Fors Seulement
Missa 'Et ecce terrae motus'
O Domine Jesu Christe
Vray Dieu d'amours
Busnois, Antoine
Fortuna desperata
Caietain, Fabrice-Marin
Amour, Amour donne moy paix ou treve
Caron, Firminus
Tante lafano
Certon, Pierre
Que n'est-elle aupres de moy
Cesaris, Johannes
Bonte biaute
Chardevoine, Jehan
Quand j'estois libre
Clereau, Pierre
La lune est coustumiere de naistre tous les mois
Compere, Loyset
Barises moy
O bone Jesu
Scaramella
Crecquillon, Thomas
Au monde n'est plus grant soulas
A vous en est de me pouvoir guarrir
Dedens Tournay
Domine Jesu Christe
Factus est repente de celo sonus
Fortune hellas que tu peult profiter
Grant heur seroit
Je ne fais riens que plaindre et soupirer
Je prens en gre la douce mort
Pour ung plaisir
Prenez pitie
Servus tuus - Declaratio sermonum
Si des haulx cieulx
Si me tenez
Ung gay berger
Virgo gloriosa
Desprez, Josquin
Absalon fili mi
Adieu mes amours
Allegez moy
Alma redemptoris mater
Ave Christe immolate
Ave Maria...Virgo Serena
Ave verum corpus
Benedicta es regina coelorum
Credo super 'De tous biens'
Cueurs desolez
De profundis clamavi
De tous biens playne
El grillo
En l'ombre d'ung buissonet
Entre je suis
Gaude Virgo, Mater Christi
Illibata Dei Virgo nutrix
In te Domine speravi
Je me complains
Je n'ose plus
Je ne me puis tenir d'aimer
La Bernardina
La Spagna
La plus des plus
Ma bouche rit et mon cueur pleure
Mille regretz
Miserere mei, Deus (Psalm 50/51)
Missa Ave Maris Stella
Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae
Missa Pange lingua
Nesse pas un grand deplaisir
Nymphes des bois
Pater noster/Ave Maria
Petite Camusette
Plaine de dueil
Planxit autem David
Praeter rerum seriem
Que vous ma dame
Regretz sans fin il me fault endurer
Salve Regina
Scaramella va alla guerra
Se congie prens
Si j'ay perdu mon amy
Stabat mater dolorosa
Tu solus qui facis mirabilia
Veni Sancte Spiritus
Vive le Roy
Dufay, Guillaume
Adieu m'amour
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Ave regina coelorum a 3
Ave virgo
Beata mater
Bien veignes vous
Bonjour, bon mois
C'est bien raison
Ce jour de l'an
Ce moys de may
Christe, redemptor omnium
Craindre vous vueil
Credo
Dona i ardenti ray
Donne l'assault a la fortresse
Ecclesiae militantis
Gloria ad modum tubae
Gloria
Helas, mon dueil
J'atendray tant qu'il vous playra
J'ay mis mon cuer et ma pensee
Je me complains piteusement
Je vous pri / Tant que mon argent / Ma tres douce amie
Kyrie
L'alta belleza tua
La belle se siet au piet de la tour
La dolce vista
Magnanime gentis
Mirandas parit hec urbs florentina puellas
Missa Ecce ancilla domini
Missa L'homme arme
Missa Se le face ay pale
Mon chier amy
Moribus et genere
Navre je sui d'un dart penetraitif
O gemma, lux et speculum
O sancte Sebastiane
O tres piteulx
Par droit je puis bien complaindre et gemir
Pour l'amour de ma doulce amye
Quel fronte signorille in paradiso
Qui latuit
Salve flos Tusce gentis
Sanctus
Se la face ay pale
Veni creator spiritus
Vergene bella
Fontaine, Pierre
Pour vous tenir
Frye, Walter
Ave regina coelorum
Ghiselin, Johannes
Ghy syt die werste boven al
Ghizeghem, Hayne van
A la audienche
De tous biens plaine
Gombert, Nicolas
Lugebat David Absalon
Se dire ie losoye
Grenon, Nicolaus
Je ne requier de ma dame
La plus jolie et la plus belle
Hasprois, Jehan Simon
Puisque je suis fumeux
Hesdin, Nicolle Des Celliers de
Helas, ma dame, faites-lui quelque bien
Isaac, Heinrich
A la bataglia
Carmen
Donna di dentro della tua casa
Es het ein Baur ein Tochterlein
Es wollt ein meydlein grasen gan
Fammi una gratia, amore
Greiner, zancker, schnopffitzer
Illumina oculos meos a 4
J'ay pris amours
La my la sol
Maria, Jungfrau hochgeborn
Missa 'La bassadanza'
Missa paschalis
Missa super 'O praeclara'
Ne piu bella di queste (Canto delle dee)
Quis dabit pacem populo timenti?
Salve sancta parens
Tota pulchra es
Janequin, Clement
O doulx regard, o parler
Lantins, Arnold de
Puis que je voy, belle, que ne m'ames
Lantins, Hugo de
Gloria
Lasso, Orlando di
Adoramus te Christe
Ad te levavi oculos meos
Al dolce suon'
Ardo si, ma non t'amo
Au feu, au feu, venez-moi secourir
Beati pacifici
Beati pauperes spiritu
Ben convenne, madonna... Solo n'andro
Bestia curvafia
Bon jour et puis quelles nouvelles?
Bon jour mon coeur
Cantai hor piango
Chi chilichi
Christus resurgens a 5
Come la notte ogni fiamella
Cum natus esset Jesus
Da pacem Domine
Dessus le Marche d'Arras
Domine, Dominus noster
Domine, quando veneris
Ein guten Rat
Fleur de quinze ans
Gloria patri et filio
Hort zu ein neus Gedicht
Il etait une religieuse
Im Mayen hort man die Hanen krayen
In hora ultima
In monte Oliveti
In pace, in idipsum
J'ayme la pierre precieuse
La nuit froide et sombre
Lucescit jam o socii... Nunc bibamus non segniter
Magnificat secundi toni 'Praeter rerum seriem'
Margot labourez les vignes
Matona mia cara
Mon coeur se recommande a vous
Musica Dei donum a 6
Omnia tempus habent
Ove d'altra montagna ombra non tocchi
O vin en vigne
Paisible domaine
Pelli meae consumptis carnibus
Penitenial Psalms (7)
Pour courir en poste a la ville
Praesidium, Sara
Quand mon mari vient de dehors
Resonet in laudibus
Spent'e d'amor... Ma che morta
Stabat Mater
Susanne ung jour
Te Deum laudamus
Tibi laus, tibi gloria
Toutes les Nuitz
Vignon vignon vignette
Voir est beacoup
Legrant, Guillaume
Wilhelmus Legrant
Lejeune, Claude
Fiere cruelle en amour
L'un apreste la glu
Revecy venir du Printans
Monte, Philippe de
Comme la tourterelle
Dolce mio caro
La Deesse Venus
La dolce vista
Missa 8 vocum 'La dolce vista'
O suavitas et dulcedo
Parce mihi, Domine
Morton, Robert
La perontina
Mouton, Jean
Nesciens mater
Neusidler, Hans
La Mora
Obrecht, Jacob
Haec Deum caeli
Laudemus nunc Dominum
Stat ein meskin was junck
Tsat een meskin
Ockeghem, Johannes
Alma redemptoris Mater
Ave Maria
Fors seulement l'actente
Intemerata Dei Mater
Je n'ay dueil
Ma bouche rit
Malor me bat
Missa Mi-mi
Missa Prolationum
Missa pro defunctis
Prenez sur moi vostre exemple amoureux
Salve Regina II
T'Andernaken
Orto, Marbrianus de
Si je perdu mon amy
Rue, Pierre de la
Ave Regina celorum
Ave sanctissima Maria
Considera Israel
Delicta juventutis
Gaude virgo
Il viendra le jour desire
Missa 'Ave sanctissima Maria'
Missa 'Cum iocunditate'
Missa pro Defunctis
O salutaris Hostia
Plorer, gemier, crier - Requiem
Vexilla Regis/Passio Domini
Sandrin, Pierre
Quand je congneu en ma pensee
Senfl, Ludwig
Non moriar sed vivam
Quis dabit oculis
Sermisy, Claudin de
Joyssance vous donneray
Secourez moy
Solage
Fumeux fume par fumee
Susato, Tielman
Bergeret sans roch
Bergerette
Danserye
Entree du fol
La bataille
Tinctoris, Johannes
Helas, le bon temps que j'avoie
Missa sine nomine
Vaet, Jakob
Continuo lacrimas
Vide, Jacobus
Et c'est assez
Il m'est si grief
Vinders, Jheronimus
O mors inevitabilis
Wert, Giaches de
Madrigals: Book 7 (1581)
Willaert, Adrian
Dessus le marche d'Arras
Flete oculi
Giunto m'ha amor
Lasso, ch'io ardo
Madonn' io non lo so
O Thoma, laus et gloria
O bene mio famm'uno favore
O dolce vita mia
O domine Jesu Christe
O dominicis diebus in quadragesima, ad vesperas, hymnus
O salutaris hostia
Ricercare
Un giorno mi prego
Zoia zentil
Artists
Ensemble Gilles Binchois
Hilliard Ensemble
Early Music Consort of London
The King’s Singers
Das Studio der fruhen Musik
Syntagma Musicum
Capella Antiqua Munchen
Chorale Philippe Caillard
Taverner Consort
Taverner Choir
Kees Boeke Consort
Ensemble per Cantar e Sonar
Ensemble vocal Stephane Caillat
Alsfelde Vokalensemble
The Consort of Musicke
Ensemble vocal de Bruxelles
Ensemble Polyphonies
Wiener Blockflotenensemble
Conductors
Dominique Vellard
David Munrow
David Kehoe
Kees Otten
Konrad Ruhland
Philippe Caillard
Andrew Parrott
Stephane Caillat
Wolfgang Helbich
Anthony Rooley
Fritz Hoyois
Charles Koenig
Composer Info
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) , le Jeune, Vide, Alexander Agricola, Antoine Brumel, Francois Andrieu, Benedictus Appenzeller, Jacobus Barbireau, Philippe Basiron, Johannes Brassart, Antoine Busnois, Fabrice-Marin Caietain, Firminus Caron, Pierre Certon, Johannes Cesaris, Jehan Chardevoine, Pierre Clereau, Loyset Compere, Pierre Fontaine, Walter Frye, Johannes Ghiselin, Hayne van Ghizeghem, Nicolas Gombert, Nicolaus Grenon, Jehan Simon Hasprois , Clement Janequin, Arnold de Lantins, Guillaume Legrant, Claude Lejeune, Philippe de Monte, Robert Morton, Jean Mouton, Hans Neusidler, Jacob Obrecht, Marbrianus de Orto, Pierre Sandrin, Ludwig Senfl, Claudin de Sermisy, Solage, Tielman Susato, Johannes Tinctoris, Jakob Vaet, Jacobus Vide, Jheronimus Vinders, le Jeune,
CD Info
catalogue number 190296730849