Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel - Simone de Bonefont: Missa pro Mortuis (2020) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Missa pro mortuis Introitus Requiem ?ternam (Live Recording)
02. Missa pro mortuis Kyrie (Live Recording)
03. Missa pro mortuis Graduale Si ambulem (Live Recording)
04. Missa pro mortuis Offertorium Domine Jesu Christe (Live Recording)
05. Missa pro mortuis Sanctus (Live Recording)
06. Missa pro mortuis Agnus Dei (Live Recording)
07. Missa pro mortuis Communio Lux ?terna (Live Recording)
08. Mitten wir im Leben sind (By Arnold von Bruck) (Live Recording)
09. Media vita in morte sumus (By Jacobus de Kerle) (Live Recording)
10. Media vita in morte sumus (By Orlandus Lassus) (Live Recording)
11. Media vita in morte sumus (By Nicolas Gombert) (Live Recording)


In perpetual search of unpublished works and forgotten composers, Paul Van Nevel invites us to discover a Requiem Mass for five voices, composed in 1556 by Simone de Bonefont, canon and cantor at Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral. The Missa pro mortuis can be considered as one of the highlights of polyphonic vocal style, encompassing all the characteristics of Franco-Flemish techniques of the period. The richness of de Bonefont’s polyphonic writing and his mastery of counterpoint are truly astonishing. True to form, the Huelgas Ensemble honours this unpublished score with a powerful interpretation, delivering music of incredible luminous tranquility. The programme also includes four compositions by Franco-Flemish masters - that de Bonefont may well have heard - on one of the most profound texts of the Gregorian repertoire: Media vita in morte summus (In the midst of life we are in death).

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