SACDs - Ockeghem

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Ockeghem & Sørensen: Requiem

Ockeghem & Sørensen: Requiem


Ockeghem:

Missa Pro Defunctis

Sørensen, B:

Fragments of Requiem

I Responsorium: Memento mei Deus (Sørensen)

II Introitus (Ockeghem)

III Kyrie (Ockeghem)

IV Sequentia: a. Rex tremendae (plainchant) b. Recordare Jesu pie (Sørensen) c. Juste judex (plainchant)

d. Lacrimosa (Sørensen)

V Graduale (Ockeghem)

VI Tractus (Ockeghem)

VII Sanctus (Sørensen, Ockeghem, Monteverdi)

VIII Benedictus (Sørensen)

IX Agnus dei (plainchant)

X Offertorium (Ockeghem)

XI In paradisum (Sørensen)


Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier

The 500 years that separate Renaissance master Johannes Ockeghem and Danish composer Bent Sørensen seem to disappear in this extraordinary Requiem which is a totality integrated both dramatically and musically; a work that unites the stylistic contrasts in a mode of expression that seems at once timeless and entirely present.

The project has been initiated by conductor Paul Hillier and interpreted by his GRAMMY-winning ensemble Ars Nova Copenhagen. To watch a promotional video please visit http://youtu.be/_n95HwndReg

“Sorensen achieves a convincing transition between the two styles, using the plainchant as a kind of mediation...Sorensen specifies the positioning of the choir and individual voices: the outstanding performances and recording vividly bring out this spatial aspect of the music in both SACD and stereo” BBC Music Magazine, October 2012 *****

“Paul Hillier was the Hilliard's director when they recorded Ockeghem's Requiem and his view of the work has hardly changed, though the ensemble he now leads is very different. So, rather than reinvent the wheel, Hillier intersperses its movements...with pieces by the Danish composer Bent Sorensen...Those who know their polyphony, by the way, will enjoy Sorensen's splicing and looping together of Sanctus settings by Monteverdi and Ockeghem.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2012

BBC Music Magazine

Choral & Song Choice - October 2012

Super Audio CD

Format:

Hybrid Multi-channel

Dacapo - 6220571

(SACD)

$17.00

(also available to download from $10.50)

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Johannes Ockeghem & Pierre de la Rue: Requiem

Johannes Ockeghem & Pierre de la Rue: Requiem


Ockeghem:

Missa Pro Defunctis

Rue, P:

Missa pro fidelibus defunctis


Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull (music director)

For its third CD on the Challenge label, Cappella Pratensis turns the page back to two of the earliest known settings of the Requiem mass with works by two of the most important musical figures of the 15th and early 16th centuries, Johannes Ockeghem, and Pierre de la Rue.

The Requiem Masses of Johannes Ockeghem and Pierre de la Rue form an ideal pairing as they are the first polyphonic versions of the Mass for the Dead from the Franco-Flemish school. La Rue clearly drew inspiration from his older colleague echoing Ockeghem's sober yet sonorous style.

Founded in 1987 the Dutch-based vocal ensemble Cappella Pratensis, literally ‘Cappella des prés’, champions the music of Josquin Desprez and the polyphonists of the 15th and 16th centuries. The group combines historically informed performance practice with inventive programmes and original interpretations based on scholarly research and artistic insight.

As in Josquin’s time, the members of Cappella Pratensis perform from a central music stand, singing from the original mensural notation scored in a large choir book. Cappella Pratensis is now under the artistic direction of singer and conductor Stratton Bull, who succeeds other previous leaders Bart Demuyt and Peter Van Heyghen.

“The two earliest surviving settings of the Requiem Mass receive beautiful realisations in superb sound: both performances and recording quality are of exemplary clarity.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2012 *****

“[Cappella Pratensis] sing with an organic appreciation of line and text in a sinuously smooth legato that engolds the ear in every phrase...Serious scholarship and a commitment to performing from a central music stand with a score in the original mensural notation combined creatively with mellifluous singing - it may be academic, but there's no want of devotional intensity.” Classical Music, 2nd June 2012 ****

“Tempi are leisurely; and, though, the voices have perhaps not the individuality to be found in some other ensembles, the sense of a collective singers in the service of the music grows with each hearing and lends integrity to a work which, for all carefully controlled intensity, is a study in exercising restraint.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2012

“The eight singers of the all-male Dutch vocal ensemble Cappella Pratensis, under the direction of the countertenor Stratton Bull, give studied, beautifully shaped and blended performances.” Sunday Times, 1st April 2012

Super Audio CD

Format:

Hybrid Multi-channel

Challenge Classics - CC72541

(SACD)

$20.00

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Danse et Chanson

Danse et Chanson


Includes dance music by Dufay, Binchois, Paumann, Lewon & Ockeghem


Anne-Marieke Evers (mezzo-soprano) & Anita Orme Della-Marta (recorder, harp)

Grand Désir

This delightful release brings to life the courtly dance music of the 15th Century. The form can be traced back to its origins in Burgandy and was enthusiastically taken up at numerous courts throughout Europe and flourished around the middle of the 15th Century. Beautifully played by Grand Dèsir, who have performed at numerous UK Early Music festivals, this CD should be warmly received.

Super Audio CD

Format:

Hybrid Multi-channel

Aliud - ACDHJ0432

(SACD)

$18.25

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