Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel - The Magic of Polyphony (2020) CD-Rip

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Title: The Magic of Polyphony
Year Of Release: 2020
Label: Deutsche HM
Genre: Classical, Choral
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 02:39:00
Total Size: 634 MB
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CD1

ANTOINE BUSNOIS c. 1430–1492
1 Bel Acueil, rondeau à 3 5.26
GIOVANNI PIETRO DEL BUONO c. 1640
2 Obligo sopra Ave maris stella à 4 3.22
NICOLAS GOMBERT c. 1495–ca. 1560
3 Triste départ, chanson à 5 3.26
PIERRE DE LA RUE c. 1460–1518
4 Sanctus “Sub tuum presidium” à 4 7.40
ANONYMOUS France, c. 1350
5 Très dous compains, chasse à 3 7.23
ANONYMOUS Picardy, c. 1520
6 Agnus Dei “Miserere michi Domine” à 8 4.13
FRAY JOSÉ DE VAQUEDANO 1642 – 1711
7 Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae à 8 12.18
8 De lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae à 8 12.24

CD2

ANONYMOUS Werden Abbey, c. 900
1 In exitu Israel, organum purum à 2 4.14
RICHARD LOQUEVILLE c. 1370–1418
2 Sanctus vineus à 4 3.48
GIOVANNI DE MACQUE c. 1548–1624
3 Io piango o Filli, madrigal à 5 3.27
THOMAS CRECQUILLON c. 1505–1557
4 Andreas Christi famulus, motet à 8 5.07
CLAUDE LE JEUNE c. 1530–1600
5 Que null’ étoile sur nous, chanson à 3 & 5 5.31
MABRIANUS DE ORTO c. 1460–1529
6 Agnus Dei “Missa Dominicalis” à 4 5.33
WILLEM CEULEERS *1962
7 Voi ch’ascoltate, madrigal à 5 3.50
NICOLAS GOMBERT c. 1495–c. 1560
8 Agnus Dei “Missa Tempore Paschali” à 6 & 8 4.38
ANONYMOUS Italy, c. 1380
9 Cum martelli, ballatà à 3 2.47
ANTON BRUCKNER 1824–1896
10 Virga Jesse, motet à 4 4.11
JACOBUS VIDE c. 1395–c. 1441
11 Il m’est si grief, rondeau à 3 5.06
CIPRIANO DE RORE 1516–1565
12 Dissimulare etiam sperasti à 5, 6 & 7 7.43

CD3

MIKOLAJ ZIELENSKI c. 1550–1615
1 Vox in Rama, motet à 4 3.26
PIERRE DE MANCHICOURT c. 1510–1564
2 Faulte d’argent, chanson à 8 3.21
ANONYMOUS Cyprus, c. 1390
3 O radix Yesse, isorhythmic motet à 4 2.48
ANONYMOUS Germany, c. 1540
4 Ach Elselein, liebes Elselein, chanson à 2 3.37
PIETER MAESSENS c. 1505–1563
5 Tota pulchra es à 5 4.09
GILLES JOYE 1424–1483
6 Ce qu’on fait à quatimini, rondeau à 3 3.04
NICOLAS GOMBERT c. 1495–c. 1560
7 Regina caeli, motet à 12 5.26
THOMAS CRECQUILLON c. 1505–1557
8 Pis ne me peult venir, chanson à 5 2.13
ORLANDUS LASSUS 1532–1594
Lamentationes feria sexta in parasceve à 5
9 Lamentatio prima 7.46
10 Lamentatio secunda 7.33
11 Lamentatio tertia 7.21

The general trend in recordings of Renaissance polyphony has been toward typing music to specific surroundings: royal festivities, religious feast days, and the like. This collection by the Huelgas Ensemble goes in the other direction, providing three CDs' worth of music ranging from the medieval era to Anton Bruckner, with most of the pieces falling into some stretch of the High Renaissance. The music was recorded, beautifully, in a Romanesque church near Dijon in 2018, and the program is unified loosely by a set of general guidelines for the selections at that event: the music emphasized "unknown repertoire, undeservedly obscure composers, and experiments that fall outside the scope of the normal concert season." All of those factors are present here, with that undeservedly obscure composer Anonymous heading the list, and the ensemble makes a strong case for the large body of rarely performed Renaissance music that's out there. Listen to the gorgeous Lamentations of Jeremiah of José de Vaquedano at the end of the first disc, or the delicate but serious chanson Que null'étoile sur nous of Claude Le Jeune, otherwise known mostly for a few metrical chanson experiments that turn up in music history classes. Each piece is given a careful and often affecting performance by the veteran Huelgas Ensemble and director Paul van Nevel, and with the extraordinary sound, this release may be just the thing for listeners who want to luxuriate in some unfamiliar Renaissance music for a couple of hours.


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