Manchicourt: Requiem for an Emperor

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Ramee
Release Date
February 14, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Pierre de Manchicourt
    • PERFORMER
      Utopia Ensemble, Jan Van Outryve
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 14, 2025
    • UPC
      4250128524018
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      RAM2401
    • LABEL
      Ramee
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. O malheureuse journée

      Composer: Nicolas Gombert

      Ensemble: Utopia

    2. La Canción del Emperador: Mille regretz (arr. for lute)

      Composer: Luys de Narváez

      Performer: Jan Van Outryve

    3. Introitus

      Composer: Pierre de Manchicourt

      Ensemble: Utopia

    4. Kyrie

      Composer: Pierre de Manchicourt

      Ensemble: Utopia

    5. Graduale

      Composer: Pierre de Manchicourt

      Ensemble: Utopia

    6. Offertorio

      Composer: Pierre de Manchicourt

      Ensemble: Utopia

    7. Sanctus

      Composer: Pierre de Manchicourt

      Ensemble: Utopia

    8. Agnus Dei

      Composer: Pierre de Manchicourt

      Ensemble: Utopia

    9. Communio

      Composer: Pierre de Manchicourt

      Ensemble: Utopia

    10. Le monde est tel

      Composer: Thomas Crecquillon

      Ensemble: Utopia

    11. Mariez moy mon père

      Composer: Cornelius Canis

      Ensemble: Utopia

    12. Aime qui vouldra

      Composer: Nicolas Gombert

      Ensemble: Utopia

    13. Fors seulement (arr. for lute)

      Composer: Antoine de Févin

      Performer: Jan Van Outryve

    14. Cuidez vous que Dieu nous faille

      Composer: Jean Richafort

      Ensemble: Utopia

    15. Si par souffrir

      Composer: Cornelius Canis

      Ensemble: Utopia

    16. Il me suffit de tous mes maulx (arr. for lute)

      Composer: Thomas Crecquillon

      Performer: Jan Van Outryve

    17. Mort et fortune

      Composer: Nicolas Gombert

      Ensemble: Utopia

    18. Nunc dimittis

      Composer: Nicolas Payen

      Ensemble: Utopia

    19. Allemande: Slaepen gaen

      Composer: Emanuel Adriaenssen

      Performer: Jan Van Outryve


Charles V was certainly the most powerful and charismatic of the Renaissance rulers. Exhausted and worn down by the challenges of imperial rule, he abdicated towards the end of his life and led a secluded existence in the monastery of Cuacos de Yuste in Castile under the motto 'Ecce elongavi fugiens et mansi in solitudine' ('I fled and remained in solitude'). The Utopia Ensemble seeks out the man behind the monarch and examines the duality of power and greatness as well as solitude. Pierre de Manchicourt - court composer to Charles's son and director of the famous Capilla Flamenca - could well have written his Requiem for one of the countless commemorations of Charles V. It radiates serenity and splendour and is juxtaposed here with chansons that moved the heart beneath Charles's imperial armour.