Josquin and The Franco-Flemish School - Box Set 34CDs

 

Label : Warner

Format : Flac track

Cover : Yes

Active in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the composers of the Franco-Flemish School included such brilliant and diverse figures as Binchois, Dufay, des Prez, Obrecht, de La Rue, Isaac, Roland de Lassus, Willaert and de Wert. Spanning two hundred years of Western music history, the School flourished throughout the Renaissance as the language of music underwent the gradual shift from ancient modality to the tonality that signalled the dawn of the Baroque aesthetic.

As well as commemorating the central figure of Josquin des Prez (1440-1521), this set includes many other major works of the Franco-Flemish School, encompassing the various genres illustrated and developed by its members – secular songs in fixed or free form, motets, polyphonic Masses, psalm settings, and so on. These compositions are captured in all their striking beauty by such renowned performers as the Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Taverner Consort, The Hilliard Ensemble and The King’s Singers.

Polyphony at its peak, the proximity of the sacred and the profane and an astonishing modernity of thought – all these qualities explain why this music still has such immediacy for us today.

CD 1: Binchois: Chansons

CD 2: Dufay, Vide, Binchois: Le Banquet du voeu 1454

CD 3: Dufay & Binchois: The Art of Courtly Love, the Court of Burgundy (LP 3 only)

CD 4: Dufay: Missa Se la face ay pale

CD 5: Dufay: Chansons & Motets

CD 6: Dufay: Missa Ecce ancilla Domini

CD 7: Dufay: Missa L'homme armé / Motets

CD 8: Dufay, Binchois: Dufay and his time

CD 9: Dufay and his time (continued from previous CD)

CD 10: Ockeghem: Missa pro defunctis, Missa Mi-mi

CD 11: Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum, Marian motets

CD 12: Josquin: Motetten um 1490-1520

CD 13: Josquin: Missa Pange Lingua

CD 14: Josquin: Motets and Chansons

CD 15: Josquin: Missa Ave maris stella, Motets & Chansons

CD 16: Josquin: Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae, Motets

CD 17: Josquin, Cléreau, Charadavoine, Le Jeune, Sermisy, Sandrin: French Chansons of the Renaissance

CD 18: The Art of the Netherlands

CD 19: The Art of the Netherlands (continued from previous CD)

CD 20: Isaac: Missa super O praeclara / Motetten und Lieder um 1480-1517

CD 21: Isaac: Sacred & Secular Works

CD 22: De Monte: Sacred & Secular Works

CD 23: La Rue: Requiem und Totenklagen um 1500-1550

CD 24: La Rue: Missa Cum iocunditate, Chansons, Motets

CD 25: Crecquillon: Chansons et Motets poir voix et instruments

CD 26: Lassus: Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales

CD 27: Lassus: Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales (continued from previous CD)

CD 28: Lassus: Motets & Chansons

CD 29: Lassus: To All Things a Season

CD 30: Lassus: How excellent is thy name - Sacred music of Lassus

CD 31: Lassus: Madrigals & Motets

CD 32: De Wert: Il settimo libro de madrigali 1581

CD 33: Willaert: Oeuvres Religieuses & Profanes - Vocales & Instrumentales

CD 34: Dufay, Ockeghem, Obrecht, Josquin: Recorder Music from the Renaissance: Netherlands

Pleasures of the Court, Twelve Dances from the Danserye (first part of program)

Complete tracklist : Josquin and The Franco-Flemish School