Le Chant de Virgile
Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel
Willaert’s piece, in particular, is achingly beautiful: for this alone, it is worth buying this very fine disc.
Le Chant de Virgile
Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel
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Willaert’s piece, in particular, is achingly beautiful: for this alone, it is worth buying this very fine disc.
About
In this selection of settings by masters like Willaert and de Rore, among others, of the verse of Virgil, Horace and Catullus, Paul Van Nevel offers us, with the subtlety of perception and the rigorous but flexible attention to detail we have come to expect from him, another dazzling excursion into the rich and fascinating by ways of early Renaissance vocal music.
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Awards and reviews
13 January 2002
Willaert’s piece, in particular, is achingly beautiful: for this alone, it is worth buying this very fine disc.
13 January 2002
Sung with such exquisite fluency, the Huelgas Ensemble under Van Nevel conveys the excitement of an epoch that yielded some of the most beautiful combinations of poetry and music.
The Independent on Sunday Sunday, 27 January 2002
Sublime repertoire, lovely singing.
