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Nicolas Champion: Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena
Graindelavoix
Glosa GCD P32104
This is a very exciting Cd with the rediscovery of a composer, a fantastic Mass and a cultural conflict centered around the popular cult of Mary Magdalene and the new biblical hereneutics showing the saint to be a construct.
Moereover, Graindelavoix interprets the Mass with ornamentations and diminutions in a strikingly new way here to be heard for the first time.
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Ars Nova in the Netherlands
Capilla Flamenca
Musique en Wallonie 0852
This repertoire is only transmitted fragemtarily. All the more this beautifully sung Cd fills a gap in the cd catalogue. Sometimes the pronounciation is a little sloppy. Details |
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Obrecht: Missa de Sancto Donatiano
Capella Pratensis
The ensemble sings laudably from original notation. Beautiful singing, yet a little uniform and not too rhetorical interpretation.
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Codex St. Emmeram
Stimmwerck
Aeolus 10023
Our partner Stimmwerck has released a wonderful cd presenting music from one of the most important sources of 15th century music. Their text presentation and ensemble singing is truly exemplary. The repertoire is a compendium of european music from the early 15th century.
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Music from the time of Leonardo da Vinci
Toronto Consort
Marquis 81357
Laudae, Madrigals, Frottole and instrumental dances from Tromboncino, Cara, Dalza, etc.
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Johannes Ockeghem: Missa cuiusvis toni
Ensemble Musica Nova
Aeon 0753
This is the first recording presenting four complete versions of this famous Ockeghem mass. It must be said, however, that there are good reasons to believe that there are only two versions of this mass through the laws of musica ficta (see the essay in this foundation's library) !
The singing is very round and little attention has been payed to rhetorical expression.
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Antoine Brumel: Missa Victimae paschali laudes and motets
Hilliard Ensemble
Coro Cor16052
This is a very fine live recording of the Hilliards from 1997 showing their extraordinary qualities: exemplary rendering of the text, perfect phrasing and wonderful interaction of the voices. All needed for works of Brumel that need a blance between architecture and line.
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Francisco de Peņalosa: Missa El Ojo and Motets
Ensemble Peņalosa
Organum Classics Ogm 261081
Peņalosa (ca. 1470-1528) is the founding father of a whole generation of Spanish composers. His style is firmly embedded in the flemish tradition, highly expressive and varied. This record gives a beautiful rendering of a large scope of his work although it could and should have been more rhetorically oriented.
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Adam von Fulda (1445-1505) : Mass
Stimmwerck
Cavalli Records
Our Slow Listening partner Stimmwerck has discovered this rare and very impressive composer of the early German Renaissance. His mass has a very personal style which comes closest to Obrecht. Stimmwerck sings vividly, with impressive rhetorical approach.
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Jacobus Regnart: Missa super Oeniades Nymphae and Motets
Cinquecento
Hyperion CDA 67640
Another discovery in the circle of the Habsburg court: Jacobus Regnart (ca. 1540-1599) was one of five (!) composing brothers. His motets are moving and have a personal appeal. Cinquecento's singing is simply lavish and beautiful.
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Songbook of Hieronymus Lauweryn van Watervliet
Egidius Kwartet
Etcetera KTC 1314
Between 1497 and 1507 this dutch nobleman and lover of the arts collected a representative choice of many secular and few religious pieces. Especially noteworthy is the large part of dutch songs in this collection. Egidius Kwartet sings with very good feeling for the different genres and moods of these pieces. They succeeded in a convincing setting of the texts as the stuck closely to the original source.
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Gilles Binchois
Chansons
graindelavoix
Glossa GCD P32102
This is a sensational Cd. Graindelavoix tries a unique new way of colouring and ornamentation of the singing voice. The instrumental voices try to improvise in the style of Ars Subtilior. Whether this is fully historical remains to be discussed, it comes much closer to the spirit of this music than anything I have heard before.
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Josquin: Missa Gaudeamus and Motets
De Labyrintho
Symphonia 33722
De Labyrintho is an excellent new ensemble with distinctly different voices. They have an excellent understanding of the counterpoint and transmit the music with great lucidity. Unfortunately, there is once more no translation of the Latin texts. This is highly annoying.
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Pierre de la Rue
Missa Incessament
Ensemble Amarcord
Raumklang RK ap 10105
A true masterpiece sung in an exemplary way by a partner of our foundatione: Ensemble Amarcord!
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