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Salve, Salve, Salve: Josquin's Spanish Legacy / Rees, Contrapunctus

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Details

Composer
DESPREZ MORALES VICTORIA
Artist
Contrapunctus, Rees
Format
CD
Discs
1
Label
Signum Classics
Released
Mar 06, 2020
Catalog #
SIGCD608
UPC
635212060827

About

Coupling powerful interpretations with path-breaking scholarship, Contrapunctus presents music by the best-known composers as well as unfamiliar masterpieces. The group’s repertoire is drawn from England, the Low Countries, Spain, Portugal and Germany, particularly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The scholarly facet of the group’s work – including the discovery of long-lost music and reconstructions of original performing contexts – allows audiences to experience the first performances of many works in modern times. Owen Rees is both an acclaimed choral director and an internationally recognized scholar of Renaissance music, particularly from Spain, Portugal, and England. His scholarship consistently informs his performances in exciting and revelatory ways. He has brought to the concert hall and recording studio substantial repertories of magnificent Renaissance and Baroque music, including many previously unknown or little-known works, and he has played a leading role in revealing the glories of Portuguese Renaissance polyphony to an international audience. His interpretations have been acclaimed as ‘revelatory and even visionary’ (BBC Music Magazine) and as ‘rare examples of scholarship and musicianship combining to result in performances that are both impressive and immediately attractive to the listener’ (Gramophone). During the 16th century, the music of Josquin Desprez became hugely sought after. Large quantities of his music were published in cathedral music books and instrumental anthologies (a huge step in this period of history). This inspired three of the greatest Spanish composers of this age - Morales, Guerrero and Victoria. In this new Signum recording, Contrapunctus and Owen Rees explore the repertoire which was produced as a result of this inspiration.

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REVIEW:

Although he includes only one piece by Josquin – the celebrated Salve regina – Contrapunctus’s director, Rees, ingeniously illustrates in this recital how the great man’s work influenced that of three of his finest Spanish Renaissance successors. The connections are sometimes arcane, but device always serves expressivity in this music. These singers give unfailingly shapely, touching performances.

– Sunday Times (UK)

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 Jubilate Deo omnis terra 05:30
    Track
    1
    Title
    Jubilate Deo omnis terra
    Duration
    05:30
    Composer
    Cristóbal de Morales
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  2. 2 Gaudeamus omnes in Domino [Feast of All Saints: Introit, mode I] 01:19
    Track
    2
    Title
    Gaudeamus omnes in Domino [Feast of All Saints: Introit, mode I]
    Duration
    01:19
    Composer
    Anonymous
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  3. 3 Kyrie 03:58
    Track
    3
    Title
    Kyrie
    Duration
    03:58
    Composer
    Tomás Luis de Victoria
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  4. 4 Gloria 07:00
    Track
    4
    Title
    Gloria
    Duration
    07:00
    Composer
    Tomás Luis de Victoria
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  5. 5 Credo 11:19
    Track
    5
    Title
    Credo
    Duration
    11:19
    Composer
    Tomás Luis de Victoria
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  6. 6 Salve regina a 6 10:01
    Track
    6
    Title
    Salve regina a 6
    Duration
    10:01
    Composer
    Tomás Luis de Victoria
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  7. 7 Sanctus 05:53
    Track
    7
    Title
    Sanctus
    Duration
    05:53
    Composer
    Tomás Luis de Victoria
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  8. 8 Agnus Dei 04:55
    Track
    8
    Title
    Agnus Dei
    Duration
    04:55
    Composer
    Tomás Luis de Victoria
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  9. 9 Ave virgo sanctissima 04:05
    Track
    9
    Title
    Ave virgo sanctissima
    Duration
    04:05
    Composer
    Francisco Guerrero
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  10. 10 Salve regina [Feast of the Immaculate Conception: Antiphon, mode I] 02:40
    Track
    10
    Title
    Salve regina [Feast of the Immaculate Conception: Antiphon, mode I]
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Anonymous
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  11. 11 Salve regina 08:08
    Track
    11
    Title
    Salve regina
    Duration
    08:08
    Composer
    Josquin des Prez
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees
  12. 12 Surge propera 06:14
    Track
    12
    Title
    Surge propera
    Duration
    06:14
    Composer
    Francisco Guerrero
    Ensemble
    Contrapunctus
    Conductor
    Owen Rees