The music of Flemish composer Nicolas Gombert (accent it like "Dilbert"), active in the first generation after Josquin in the 1530s and 1540s, has remained almost completely untouched by the growth in audience enthusiasm for Renaissance music in recent years. Is this because, according to one of those music-historical sidelights reproduced in the ...
The front cover of this Hyperion disc, Nicolas Gombert: Tribulatio et angustia featuring the Brabant Ensemble under Stephen Rice, is decorated with a very striking and violent image, that of a scroll-bearing demon standing amid hellfire with the souls of the damned in torment beneath as they are vomited up by some sort of fire-breathing dragon. ...
Nicolas Gombert, active in the first part of the sixteenth century, was of the generation that followed Josquin Desprez and may have been Josquin's student. His a cappella choral music, said one laconic but spot-on contemporary, "avoids rests." In place of the gracefully alternating pairs of voices in Josquin's sacred works the listener hears ...
It's always great to encounter the recording that can "crack" a composer open, making his or her music accessible to a general listening public. And it's all the better when such a recording comes from beyond the usual quarters, as, for example, with this American recording of Renaissance polyphony. Nicolas Gombert was a Flemish Renaissance ...
The music of Nicolas Gombert (accent it like "Dilbert"), from the generation after Josquin in the middle sixteenth century, develops Josquin's language in the direction of greater density. His unaccompanied sacred choral works are luxuriant things, both difficult and greatly rewarding for choirs. His name is less well known than that of Josquin or ...
In the liner notes of the CDs it issues, Germany's MDG label offers a blurb touting its "genuine reproduction with precise depth gradation, original dynamics, and natural tone colors." It's reminiscent of the specs-crazy 1960s, but once in a while the engineers do meet the musicians at a charmed spot. Lamentationes is a disc of fairly obscure ...
Vox is an Ann Arbor, MI-based early music ensemble that is performing a cappella Renaissance choral works in a part of the world where just recently they were hard to hear in person. Josquin and the Lost Generation is their debut recording. The disc contains an attractive and interesting program that does a fine job introducing audiences to the ...
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