Josquin Desprez died exactly 500 years ago. Tirelessly criss-crossing Europe from one court to another, he was one of the key figures of Franco-Flemish music in the Renaissance. To pay tribute to this major figure in the history of music, harmonia mundi has assembled here some of his most characteristic secular and sacred works. This richly illustrated CD-book places his career in the context of his effervescent times.
CD 1
1-5. Missa de Beata Virgine
Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier
Ave Maria
Stabat mater dolorosa
Ave nobilissima creatura
Salve regina à 4
La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe
Pater noster – Ave Maria
De profundis – Requiem æternam
Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
Qui habitat à 24
Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel
CD 2
1-11. Missa Pange lingua
Ensemble Clément Janequin, Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès
12-14. In principio erat Verbum
15-17. Miserere mei, Deus
18. Déploration sur la mort d’Ockeghem
Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
CD 3
Douleur me bat
Adieu mes amours
Plusieurs regretz
Petite camusette
Mille regretz
Mille regretz (Canción del Emperador)
En non saichant
J’ay bien cause de lamenter
Nimphes, nappés
Ile fantazies
La plus des plus
Plus n’estes ma maistresse
Cueurs desolez … Ne cherchez plus/Plorans ploravi
Plaine de dueil
Fortuna desperata
Faulte d’argent
Cueur langoreulx
Fors seulement
Je me complains
Se congié prens à 6
Tenez moy en vos bras à 6
El grillo
Si j’ay perdu mon amy
Parfons regretz
Vous l’arez, s’il vous plaist
Allégez moy
Ensemble Les Eléments, Ensemble Clément Janequin, Dominique Visse