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Josquin: Motets & Mass movements

David Stuart (bass), The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice

The ensemble’s sound is clean and ingenuous throughout: boyish sopranos and altos are balanced by fresh-voiced tenors and basses, intonation is nigh flawless, the recording limpid. Stephen Rice...

Josquin: Motets & Mass movements

David Stuart (bass), The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice

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The ensemble’s sound is clean and ingenuous throughout: boyish sopranos and altos are balanced by fresh-voiced tenors and basses, intonation is nigh flawless, the recording limpid. Stephen Rice...

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Biographical and musicological certainties may be in short supply in the life and work of Josquin, but there’s no gainsaying the magnificence of the music recorded here: a programme of shorter works, most in unusual guise, to celebrate his 500th anniversary.

Contents and tracklist

I. Mittit ad virginem
Track length5:13
II. Accede nuntia
Track length2:42
I. Alma redemptoris mater / Ave regina caelorum
Track length3:04
II. Tu quae genuisti / Gaude gloriosa
Track length3:26
I. Huc me sydereo
Track length5:31
II. Felle sitim magni regis
Track length3:24
I. Stabat mater dolorosa
Track length4:20
II. Eia mater, fons amoris
Track length4:40
I. O bone et dulcissime Jesu
Track length6:26
II. Si ergo commisi
Track length3:57
I. Domine, ne in furore tuo
Track length4:56
II. Turbatus est a furore oculus meus
Track length4:26
I. Usquequo, Domine, oblivisceris me?
Track length4:18
II. Illumina oculos meos
Track length6:02
I. Homo quidam fecit coenam magnam
Track length2:30
II. Venite, comedite panem meam
Track length1:35
I. Gloria in excelsis Deo
Track length4:04
II. Qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe
Track length4:08
I. Sanctus
Track length1:45
II. Honor et benedictio
Track length0:57
III. Benedictus
Track length1:04

Awards and reviews

March 2021

The ensemble’s sound is clean and ingenuous throughout: boyish sopranos and altos are balanced by fresh-voiced tenors and basses, intonation is nigh flawless, the recording limpid. Stephen Rice and his singers subtly capture the emotional and spiritual gamut of these works...Rice’s detailed liner notes, which include a summary of the scholarly debates surrounding the spurious works, wrap up this treasurable anniversary disc.

March 2021

The performances are clear and legible but a touch over-cautious; in the longer pieces, rival versions pull off faster tempos to better effect...A qualified recommendation, then; but this rarely heard Josquin has much to tell us.
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