Josquin & the Franco-Flemish School

 
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DESPREZ des PREZ / DUFAY / OCKEGHEM / ISAAC / LASSUS / de WERT / etc
Josquin & the Franco-Flemish School
Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Taverner Consort, The Hilliard Ensemble, King's Singers, etc

[ Warner Classics / 34 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Wednesday 24 March 2004

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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.

'The chansons recorded here have both variety of colour and lightness of touch, while the motets are sung with dignity and feeling by the Hilliard Ensemble. Indeed, these performances will kindle the enthusiasm of the uninitiated as few others can. The recording is expertly balanced and eminently truthful.' PENGUIN GUIDE on the Josquin Chansons & Motets

Tracks:

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: Dufay: Missa "Se la face ay pale" / Chanson "Se la face ay pale" / Gloria ad modum tobae
CD 5: Dufay: Motets & Chansons
CD 6: Dufay: Missa "Ecce ancilla Domini" - Proprium "De angelis Dei officium"
CD 7: Dufay: Missa "L'Homme armé" / Motets
CD 8: Dufay, Binchois…: Dufay and His Time (1)
CD 9: Dufay, Binchois…: Dufay and His Time (2)
CD 10: Ockeghem: Missa pro defunctis / Missa "Mi-mi"
CD 11: Ockeghem: Missa prolationum / Motets
CD 12: Josquin des Prez: Motets
CD 13: Josquin des Prez: Missa "Pange lingua" / Miserere mei Deus
CD 14: Josquin des Prez: Motets & Chansons
CD 15: Josquin des Prez: Missa "Ave Maris Stella" / Chansons / Motets