Renaissance - The Music Of Josquin Desprez / King's Singers

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Label
RCA
Release Date
July 20, 2012
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      Renaissance, Var, Renaissance, Var
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 20, 2012
    • UPC
      090266181421
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      RCA 61814
    • LABEL
      RCA
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    Works ⌄

    1. Benedicta es, caelorum regina

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    2. Vous l'arez, s'il vous plaist a 6

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    3. Vous ne l'aurez pas

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    4. A la mort - Monstra te esse matrem

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    5. O virgo virginum

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    6. Nymphes, nappes

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    7. A l'ombre d'ung buissonet,

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    8. Regretz sans fin a 6

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    9. Allegez moy a 6

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    10. Absolve quaesumus

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    11. Pour souhaitter

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    12. Millet regretz a 4

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    13. Se congie prens

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    14. Ce povre - Pauper sum ego

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    15. Virgo prudentissima a 4

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    16. Petite camusette

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    17. Nymphes des bois a 5

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    18. A l'ombre d'ung buissonet,

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    19. Basies moy

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    20. Basies moy

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers

    21. Pater noster

      Composer: Josquin des Prez

      Ensemble: The King's Singers


This program of five motets and sixteen chansons is presented as a collection of the composer's six-part works. In fact, besides its acknowledged omission of Praeter rerum seriem, it ignores ten more six-part motets in the Smijers edition, of which The New Grove works-list downgrades four to the doubtful category (the others have more or less claim to authenticity, a big debate among Josquin scholars). On the other hand, only nine of the chansons are six-voice pieces, and one of those is doubtful.

The King's Singers, who have recently moved to their new label, offer music more rarefied than their usual popular collections, demonstrating an affinity with other Oxbridge graduates who currently dominate the English early-music scene. The six male voices are nicely balanced, as usual, and their idiomatic interpretations are quite satisfactory. The five-voiced lament for Ockeghem and the four-voiced Mille regretz are among the more familiar items, while O virgo prudentissima seems to be a first recording. The sound is clear, the notes by David Fallows are useful, and texts come with translation. This is a good addition to the Josquin shelf, hardly too crowded anyway.

-- J. F. Weber, FANFARE [5/1994]