The Secular Josquin
Nicholas Routley brings a lifelong love of Josquin to his work with The Song Company. This programme of short secular songs and motets offers an unusual window on a repertoire less often heard among recordings of the composer.
The programme gathers Josquin's secular chansons and related motets, from brief courtly songs to longer works of mourning and regret. It closes with Nicolas Gombert's Musæ Jovis, a monody written in memory of Josquin.
Artists
The Song Company
The Song Company sings with bite and polish across Mozart's scatological canons, Josquin's courtly chansons, and Australian choral works that protest, dance and mourn.
Nicholas Routley
Nicholas Routley is a conductor, pianist and composer who founded the Sydney Chamber Choir in 1975 and has shaped its work in Renaissance polyphony and new Australian choral music.
Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez shaped Renaissance vocal polyphony into something keenly expressive: independent voices that imitate, answer and lock around the text. Masses, motets and chansons still sound alive in the throat.
Tracks
- Mille Regretz Josquin des Prez 1:38
- Petite Camusette Josquin des Prez 1:37
- Allégez Moy Josquin des Prez 1:52
- Ma Bouche Rit Josquin des Prez 3:17
- Dulces Exuviæ Josquin des Prez 3:25
- Fama Malum Josquin des Prez 2:29
- Mon Mary M'a Diffamé Josquin des Prez 5:48
- La Belle Se Siet Josquin des Prez 4:54
- Plus Nulz Regretz Josquin des Prez 9:55
- La Déploration Pour Jehan Ockeghem Josquin des Prez 3:58
- Nimphes Nappées Josquin des Prez 1:55
- Faulte D'argent Josquin des Prez 1:57
- J'ay Bien Cause de Lamenter Josquin des Prez 2:27
- Plusieurs Regretz Josquin des Prez 2:42
- Incessament Livre Suis Josquin des Prez 2:30
- A L'ombre D'ung Buissonet Josquin des Prez 1:55
- Basiez Moy [à 4–à 6] Josquin des Prez 1:24
- Plaine de Deuil Josquin des Prez 1:50
- Musæ Jovis In Josquinum a Prato, Musicorum Principem, Monodia Nicolas Gombert 5:02
Performers
- The Song Company · choir
- Nicholas Routley · directed by
Composer
Nicolas Gombert
Nicolas Gombert wrote dense, closely imitative sacred polyphony at the height of the Franco-Flemish style: masses, motets and Magnificat settings in continuous textures that favour lower voices and bold cross-relations.
Contributors
Artwork [Cover]
Ross Harvey
Where to listen
The Secular Josquin is available for streaming through Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
The Secular Josquin is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- TP077
- Total playing time
- 60 minutes 35 seconds
- Venue
- St Scholastica's, Glebe
- Credit
- Ross Harvey
- Release date
- 1996
- Label
- Tall Poppies
- Musical work
copyright - © Tall Poppies Records
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ Tall Poppies Records
- Categories
- Great Classics, Voice / Soundscape
- Genres
- Early Music, Vocal & Opera
- Barcode
- EAN 9399011007728
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