The consistently superb Hilliard Ensemble here sets itself the difficult task of making Johannes Ockeghem's music immediate and showing the modern listener some of what was admired in Ockeghem's music in its own time. The group succeeds brilliantly. The immediacy comes partly from the fact that this is a live recording, part of a series the group has been issuing on its own label. These have been successful enough to be picked up by England's Coro label, home to the complementary early music group the Sixteen. In some of ...
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The consistently superb Hilliard Ensemble here sets itself the difficult task of making Johannes Ockeghem's music immediate and showing the modern listener some of what was admired in Ockeghem's music in its own time. The group succeeds brilliantly. The immediacy comes partly from the fact that this is a live recording, part of a series the group has been issuing on its own label. These have been successful enough to be picked up by England's Coro label, home to the complementary early music group the Sixteen. In some of the most difficult examples of unaccompanied choral music, the group never loses its footing or its pitch security. But it's more a matter of the program, which is entirely novel. It is structured so as to reveal the web of references that is crucial for any music before 1600, but that is difficult to grasp in the case of Ockeghem because his music is so often presented as purely intellectual. That it is, but, as with Bach, the intellect is often hidden. What an audience of the late...
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Add this copy of Hilliard Live 2: for Ockeghem to cart. $30.06, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Coro.