The Essential Josquin des Prez? Certainly, this single disc is an excellent introduction to the great Renaissance composer. Performed with singular intensity, complete sincerity, and total musicality by the Clerks' Group under the direction of Edward Wickham, the works selected here represent the full range of Josquin's genius. The five motets are ...
"Have pity on Dufay as he sleeps," reads part of the text to Guilliame Dufay's "Ave regina coelorum," "lest he fall into the fire where sinners burn." In the fifteenth century, it was nothing unusual for a musician to compose an epitaph for one's self, and it was part of the job description for an expert composer to produce music in observance of ...
Compiled from a series of nine recordings, this disc called The Essential Ockeghem by the Clerks' Group led by Edward Wickham is an ideal single-disc introduction to the work of the late Medieval master. There's the breadth of the repertoire -- with two spiritual motets, three secular songs, a six-movement mass sequence drawn from six different ...
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