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Peter Phillip's pre-eminently clear-sighted direction… may carry with it a certain detachment, but the architecture of Josquin's edifices is allowed to emerge untrammelled by well-meaning expressive... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Mar 2009
Catalogue No: CDGIM042
Label: Gimell
Series: Complete Josquin Mass Cycle
Length: 75 minutes

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Josquin: Missa 'Malheur me bat'

Work length39:41

$7.45

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$11.25

The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips

I. Kyrie

Track length3:40

$1.05

$1.30

$1.60

II. Gloria

Track length5:59

$1.05

$1.30

$1.60

III. Credo

Track length8:23

$1.60

$1.95

$2.40

IV. Sanctus and Benedictus

Track length10:36

$1.60

$1.95

$2.40

V. Agnus Dei

Track length11:03

$2.15

$2.60

$3.25

Josquin: Missa Fortuna desperata

Work length35:40

$6.90

$8.45

$10.40

The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips

I. Kyrie

Track length3:18

$1.05

$1.30

$1.60

II. Gloria

Track length7:22

$1.60

$1.95

$2.40

III. Credo

Track length9:01

$1.60

$1.95

$2.40

IV. Sanctus and Benedictus

Track length9:29

$1.60

$1.95

$2.40

V. Agnus Dei

Track length6:30

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$1.30

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The Tallis Scholars have been performing the music of Josquin regularly in concert for over 20 years. Their 1986 CD of his music remains the only recording of Early Music to have won the Gramophone Record of the Year Award. This new release is the fourth CD in The Tallis Scholars’ projected Complete Josquin Mass Cycle.

"It has recently become a favourite intellectual game to compare Josquin’s career with that of Beethoven. Essentially the point is that Josquin was as influential a composer in his time as Beethoven was in his; but the subplot is that Josquin ought to be taken as seriously as any later composer even though he lived so long ago and only wrote for voices. These Mass-settings are two of the finest to come from any pen." Peter Phillips

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March 2009

Peter Phillip's pre-eminently clear-sighted direction… may carry with it a certain detachment, but the architecture of Josquin's edifices is allowed to emerge untrammelled by well-meaning expressive accretions, and to speak for itself with a directness and intellectual power that compels from first note to last.

12th March 2009

The choir’s lucid vocal textures highlight the mastery of Josquin's interweaving vocal lines. Their tone is clear and sonorous, the phrases are beautifully shaped, and the mood solemn but warm.

April 2009

…as a piece of ensemble-singing the disc is hugely impressive and I suspect that listeners will come away feeling that they've learnt something important about Josquin.

May 2013

the performance standards are amazingly high. Furthermore, though the performances are obviously grounded in scholarship that scholarship is worn lightly: these performances are exciting, compelling and often moving.

2011 edition

it is the beauty of the flowing forward momentum which is so compelling in Josquin's writing throughout...[the Missa Fortuna] makes a particularly rewarding coupling, sung with great conviction and comparable flexibility by the Tallis Scholars, and beautifully recorded. Peter Phillips's notes are exemplary too.

7th March 2009

Adventurous harmonies pour forth, though the calm radiance of Peter Phillips's singers always soothes the temples in these two Masses spun from secular songs.

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