Performers:
Ensemble Clément Janequin
Dominique Visse (counter-tenor), Michel Laplénie (tenor),
Philippe Cantor (baritone), Antoine Sicot (bass)
Ensemble Organum
Gérard Lesne (counter-tenor), Josep Benet (tenor), Josep
Cabré (baritone), François Fauché (bass)
Marcel Pérès, dir.
Playing time: 51' 34"
Recording site and date:
Unknown [Jan. 1986];
Rel.: 1986 (LP, Cass., CD); 2008 (HMG)
Excerpts:
[2]-[3], [6], [8], [11] Harmonia mundi HMX
290 8016.20 Musique de la Renaissance Music - L'Europe Musicale
au XVe et XVIe siècles
[2]-[3] Harmonia Mundi "Century"
HMX 290 8170 [CD] A History of Music, vol. 8: Messes et Motets
de la Renaissance (1500-1600 / Renaissance Masses and Motets
(1500-1600) - Musique sacrée de la Renaissance / Renaissance
Sacred Music
Reviewed in:
Opéra International: Sept. 1986
This recording is a full service setting, using both chant and Josquin's polyphony. on which the mass is based. A new perspective on Josquin's highly unified settings can be gained from a presentation of this type, although the present construction also adopts some rhythmic interpolations of which Josquin may not have approved.
It should also be noted that Ensemble Organum was one of the major groups to begin interspersing liturgical chant into Renaissance polyphony programs. Together with the present recording, two others with somewhat similar approaches are:
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Todd M. McComb