On this page you find details about the CDs of the Huelgas Ensemble. The most recent CDs are listed first. From some tracks a short sample is given.
 

Huelgas discography

Hier vindt u een lijst van alle cd's van ons ensemble, met de meest recente uitgaven bovenaan.
Sommige tracks zijn online te beluisteren.
The Eton Choirbook
One of the most important recordings of Huelgas Ensemble in the last years!
More than 70 minutes of the most exciting English repertoire of the end of the 15th century.		  
Year 2012 
Label Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | Sony Music 
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no. 88765408852 
Duration  
Medium cd (1)
 Tracks
 Salve Regina à 7 _ 23 notarum
John Sutton (fl. fin 15e siècle) 
 Magnificat anima mea à 5 _ 23 notarum   William Horwood (fl. fin 15e siècle)  
 Gaude Virgo Mater Christi à 6 _15 notarum   Edmund Sturton (fl. début 16e siècle) 
 Stabat Mater dolorosa à 6 _22 notarum   John Browne (fl. ca.1480-1505) 
 Salve Regina à 9 _ 23 notarum   Robert Wylkynson (ca.1475- après 1514) 
Jacob Clement
Jacob Clement alias Clemens non Papa was one of the leading Flemish composers of the 16th century.
Although known for his sacred works, he led an extremely dissolute life. But this degree of inspiration that reflects his lively imagination and his virtuoso command of counterpoint, made him the most popular composer of chansons of his generation.

This CD celebrates his 500th anniversary with world premiere recordings of sacred works as well as three of his famous 'Souterliedekens' (Psalter Songs).
  
Year 2012 
Label Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no. 88697780692 
Duration 63:08 
Medium cd (1)
Awards Choc Classica (2012)  
Diapason d'OR (2012) 
The Art of the Cigar
Passionate cigar smoker and conductor Paul Van Nevel selected charming compositions that are brief sketches of the luxurious world of  the cigar between the 16th and 20th century.
They are superbly interpreted with a hint of irony and humor by the Huelgas Ensemble and evoke the timeless pleasure and relaxing atmosphere that cigar lovers all over the world still treasure to this day...		  
Year 2011 
Label Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no. 88697771422 
Duration 57:24 
Medium cd (1)
PraeBACHtorius
PraeBACHtorius presents a programme that illustrates the evolution of a living tradition in whiche the strenght of the simple chorale is reflected in the totally self-contained forms to which it inspired later generations.  
Year 2010 
Label Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no. DHM 88697579872 
Duration 61'58 
Medium cd (1)
A secret labyrinth (15 CD box)
This box is the reedition of 15 CDs, recorded by the Huelgas Ensemble between 1990 and 1998 for Sony-Vivarte. Most of these recordings were not available anymore in the music stores. This "Secret Labyrinth" shows the cooperation between Sony producer Wolf Erichson and Paul Van Nevel, that lead to a series of unique recordings with several international awards.  
Year 2009 
Label Sony 
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no. 88697478442 
Duration  
Medium cd (1)
Awards Diapason d'or (2009) 
La Poesia Cromatica
Michelangelo Rossi
Michelangelo Rossi (1601-1656) was, in addition to an outstanding violonist and organist, one of the most significant composers of the Italian Renaissance period. Paul Van Nevel has discovered three of Rossi's instrumental works and thirteen of his ground-braking madrigals and presents them here for the world premiere recording with his award-winning Huelgas Esemble.

To download the original songtexts: click here		  
Year 2009 
Label Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no. 88697527092 
Duration 60'50 
Medium cd (1)
Awards Choc Classica 
La Quinta essentia
Paul Van Nevel and the Huelgas-Ensemble have collected the quintessence of a musical art. Their recording illustrates the three dominant styles of the Renaissance: the Roman school, Franco-Flemish polyphony, and English late Gothic. The chosen formal framework is the mass, and three of its greatest masters contribute to the programme: Lassus, ‘counterpoint on a human scale’, Palestrina, ‘the path of transcendence’, and Ashewell, ‘the irresistible appeal of virtuoso ornamentation’. A whole world recreated in sound!  
Year 2007 
Label Harmonia Mundi 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. HMC901922 
Duration 77'11 
Medium cd (1)
Awards Editor's Choice Gramophone 
Scherzo 
Choc Le Monde de la Musique (december 2007) 
10 Crescendo 
Ceciliaprice 2007 (Early Music) 
A 40 voix
Les sommets de la polyphonie
While the latter half of the sixteenth century saw the first stirrings of the Baroque, this period also witnessed the creation of the finest cathedrals in sound, with their foundations in the distant Gothic era of music . . . Composers vied with each other in daring and ingenuity, presenting works with twelve, sixteen, twenty-four and even, in the case of Tallis's famous Spem in alium, forty different voices! The Huelgas Ensemble celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary with a spectacular selection of these works.  
Year 2006 
Label Harmonia Mundi France 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. HMC 801954  
Duration 62'02 
Medium cd (1)
Awards Choc du Monde de la Musique 
Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik 
10 de Crescendo 
Renaissance
Masterworks of Polyphony
Special box at the occasion of the 35th aniversary of the Huelgas Ensemble, with the rerelease of three CD's that received the best reviews. CD1: Le chant de virgile - CD 2: Lamentationes de la renaissance  - CD 3: Requiem de Jean Richafort. Tracks: see the CD's below.  
Year 2006 
Label Harmonia Mundi 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. HMX2908196.98 
Duration 3h16' 
Medium cd (3)
Alfonso Ferrabosco
Alfonso Ferrabosco 'Il Padre' has suffered a curious fate: he has long been neglected on record, yet in his own time he was the most eminent representative of a famous Bolognese musical dynasty. After emigrating to England at an early age, he spent most of his life in the service of Elizabeth I, earning the admiration of his peers. Though implicated in some distinctly murky affairs - could he have been a secret agent for the queen? - Ferrabosco was above all a musical genius, capable of equally felicitous expression in the motet, the madrigal or the polyphonic chanson.  
Year 2005 
Label Harmonia Mundi France 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. HMC 901874 
Duration 60'33 
Medium cd (1)
Jacobus De Kerle
Da pacem Domine. Messes et motets
Perhaps Jacobus de Kerle, contemporary and peer of Orlande de Lassus, Clemens non Papa and Philippe De Monte, needed a tireless pioneer of the calibre of Paul Van Nevel to rediscover him for the 21st century. This master of polyphony, who was active in Flanders, Italy and Germany before finally settling in Prague, left works of timeless beauty - as this CD will prove.  
Year 2004 
Label Harmonia Mundi France 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. HMC 901866  
Duration 68'37 
Medium cd (1)
Awards Winner Edison classical2007 
10 de Crescendo 
Roland De Lassus
Il Canzoniere di Messer Francesco Petrarca
It was in seeking to set to music the emotions they found in literary texts and poems – imitar le parole – that the madrigalists of the early sixteenth century rediscovered the poetry of Francesco Petrarca. The rich imagery of his language provided the springboard for Orlande de Lassus, in particular, to show his mastery over a period of nearly forty years as one of the greatest composers of madrigals.  
Year 2004 
Label Harmonia Mundi France 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. HMC 901828 
Duration 51'34 
Medium cd (1)
Awards 10 de Répertoire 
Edison Classical Music Award 
10 in Luister 
Costanzo Festa
La Spagna, 32 contrapunti
The cycle of 125 variations that Constanzo Festa composed on the 37-note cantus firmus 'La Spagna' is conceived on a scale unique during the Renaissance, and may justly be described as a compositional tour de force. Comparisions with Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations are inevitable. This CD offers a first recording of thirty-two of the variations in instrumental performances using two differently constituted ensembles.  
Year 2003 
Label Harmonia Mundi France 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. HMC 801799 
Duration 52'08 
Medium cd (1)
Awards 10 de Répertoire 
Choc du Monde de la Musique 
Jean Richafort (c.1480-c.1547)
Requiem
We possess many works by Jean Richafort, but very little biographical information on the composer. In the sixteenth century he was the object of veneration and admiration. The great Ronsard himself spoke of him in the most enthusiastic terms, and most of his contemporaries - Mouton, Morales, Gombert, Palestrina - based Masses on his music.  
Year 2003 
Label Harmonia Mundi France 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. HMC 901730 
Duration 60'44 
Medium cd (1)
Awards Diapason d'Or 
Recommandé par Classica 
10 de Répertoire 
Luister 
Cipriano de Rore
Missa Praeter rerum seriem, Madrigaux et motets
Cipriano de Rore: music as the mirror of the text. The work of de Rore represent a milestone in the art of the renaissance, since for te first time the music and the emotions expressed by the text merge: the music 'is' the emotion and no longer merely a description of it. Or as the musicologist Alfred Einstein put it: "All madrigal music of the 16th century that lays  claim to serious dignity is dependent upon Rore. Lasso and Monte are inconceivable without him."  
Year 2002 
Label Harmonia Mundi France 
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no. HMC 901760 
Duration 64'34 
Medium cd (1)
Awards Recommandé par Classica 
10 de Répertoire 
Choc du Monde de la Musique 
Classics Today 
Editor's Choice Grampohone 
Goldberg 5 stars 
Le Chant de Virgile
Desprez, Mouton, Senfl, Willaert, de Rore, Renvoisy…
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.  
Year 2001 
Label Harmonia Mundi France 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. HMC 901739 
Duration 65'26 
Medium cd (1)
Awards Diapason d'Or 
Recommandé par Classica 
10 de Répertoire 
Annibale Padovano (1527-1575)
Messe à 24 voix
On this CD the Huelgas Ensemble and Paul Van Nevel offer the world premiere recording of this extraordinary mass for 24 voices by Padovano, a composer underestimated today but who was considered in 16th century Italy as "onde of the founders of modern music" (Galilei)... On the CD are presented two versions of the 24 part mass. Tracks 1-5: version 1 for vocal ensemble, 2 cornettos and bass trombone; tracks 6-10: version 2 for 3 voices and 21 instruments.  
Year 2001 
Label Harmonia Mundi France 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. HMC 901727 
Duration 54'11 
Medium cd (1)
Christophorus Demantius (1567-1643)
Vespres de Pentecoste
An exact contemporary of Monteverdi (they were born en died in the same years), the Bohemian Christophorus Demantius was a prodigiously inventive composer totally outside the Italian avant-garde movement heralded by his transalpine 'twin'. And yet, paradoxically enough, not unlike Gesualdo (perhaps even more autonomously), he explored new musical avenues with extraordinary ingenuity while remaining attached to the polyphonic style of the Renaissance. In this respect these highly festive 'Whitsun Vespers' are something like a sumptuous transition from the 'old' counterpoint of Lassus and Praetorius to the imminent innovations of Schein and Schütz.  
Year 2000 
Label Harmonia Mundi France 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. HMC 901705 
Duration 46'43 
Medium cd (1)
Awards Recommandé par Classica 
Excepcional de Scherzo 
Guillaume Dufay (ca. 1400-1477)
O Gemma Lux; Les 13 Motets Isorythmiques
 
Year 2000 
Label Harmonia Mundi France 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. HMC 901700 
Duration 68'43 
Medium cd (1)
Awards Choc du Monde de la Musique 
Recommandé par Classica 
Cypriano De Rore
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Secundum Johannem
In his Passion according to St. John, Rore created a masterpiece of plainchant elaboration in polyphony. Unlike other Passion settings of the period, this one sets the entire text, while carefully adhering to the Gregorian recitation tones and structures for the Passion. The syllabic declamation of the text gives a powerful "speaking" effect, while avoiding the madrigalisms Rore is better known for.  
Year 2000 
Label Deutsche Harmonia Mundi  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. RD7794 + 77429 
Duration 67'17 
Medium cd (1)
Lamentations of the Renaissance
The Tenebrae in music. The heartrending words of the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah have at all times inspired a multitude of musical settings imprinted with a characteristic mixture of pain and hope. It would be wrong to imagine that these famous biblical poems written after the fall of Jerusalem in 586 A.D., with rhythmic verse after verse beginning with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet, were exclusive specialities of the Baroque period. Renaissance composers did not have to wait for the 17th French century Leçons de Ténèbres before consecrating all their art to these Lamentations – an art marked by an extraordinary personal involvement.  
Year 1999 
Label Harmonia Mundi 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. HMC 901682 
Duration 69'38 
Medium cd (1)
Awards 10 de Classica-Répertoire 
Diapason d'or 
Scherzo 
La Favola di Orfeo (1494) cd 2
Reedition of the double LP RCA - SEON RL30856 from 1982  
Year 1998 
Label Sony Classical - SEON  
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no. SB2K 60095-10/2 
Duration 47'49 
Medium cd (2)
La Favola di Orfeo (1494) cd 1
Reedition of the double LP RCA - SEON RL30856 from 1982  
Year 1998 
Label Sony Classical - SEON 
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no. SB2K 60095-10/1 
Duration 48'06 
Medium cd (2)
Alexander Agricola (1446 - 1506)
A Secret Labyrinth
 
Year 1998 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 60760 
Duration 66'58 
Medium cd (1)
Johannes Ciconia
Complete works cd 1
Rerelease on CD of the recording for Musique en Wallonie (MW 80040-44).  
Year 1997 
Label Pavane 
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no. ADW 7345/6/7 
Duration 64'12 
Medium cd (3)
Johannes Ciconia
Complete works cd 3
 
Year 1997 
Label Pavane 
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no. ADW 7345/6/7 
Duration 61'28 
Medium cd (3)
Johannes Ciconia
Complete works cd 2
 
Year 1997 
Label Pavane 
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no. ADW 7345/6/7 
Duration 70'41 
Medium cd (3)
Musica Mystica Vol. IV
 
Year 1997 
Label Sony 
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no.  
Duration 70'18 
Medium cd (1)
Musica Mystica Vol. II
 
Year 1997 
Label Sony 
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no.  
Duration 72'21 
Medium cd (1)
La Pellegrina
Music for the Wedding of Ferdinando de' Medici and Christine de Lorraine, Princess of France (Florence 1589)- CD2
 
Year 1997 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte 
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no. S2k 63362  
Duration 58'44 
Medium cd (2)
Lamentations de la Renaissance
Tiburtio Massaino, Robert White, Marbrianus De Orto, Rolandus Lassus
 
Year 1997 
Label Harmonia Mundi France 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. HMC 901682 & HMG 501682 (re-release) 
Duration 01h10'00 
Medium cd (1)
La Pellegrina
Music for the Wedding of Ferdinando de' Medici and Christine de Lorraine, Princess of France (Florence 1589)- CD1
 
Year 1997 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. S2k 63362 
Duration 45'39 
Medium cd (2)
Pierre de Manchicourt (ca. 1510-1564)
Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus, Motets, Chansons
 
Year 1997 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 62 694 
Duration 62'51 
Medium cd (1)
Tears Of Lisbon
16th Century Arts Songs
 
Year 1997 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 62 256 
Duration 67'36 
Medium cd (1)
Mattheus de Perusio (ca. 1370-ca. 1415)
Virelais, Ballades, Caccia
 
Year 1996 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 62 928 
Duration 61'06 
Medium cd (1)
Claude Le Jeune (ca. 1528-1600)
Le Printans
 
Year 1996 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 68 259 
Duration 63'07 
Medium cd (1)
Matthaeus Pipelare (ca. 1450-ca. 1515)
Missa “L’Homme Armé”, Chansons
 
Year 1996 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 68 258 
Duration 65'15 
Medium cd (1)
Utopia Triumphans
 
Year 1995 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 66 261 
Duration 52'47 
Medium cd (1)
In Musica Vivarte
CD-compilation for the Flanders Festival Ghent and Historical cities - edition 1994.  
Year 1994 
Label Sony Classical 
Conductor Paul Van Nevel 
Cat. no. SSK 6503 
Duration 72'43 
Medium cd (1)
Jacobus Gallus : Opus Musicum, Missa Super Sancta Maria
 
Year 1994 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 64 305 
Duration 73'41 
Medium cd (1)
Cançoes, Vilancicos, e Motettes Portugueses Séculos XVI-XVII
 
Year 1994 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 66 288 
Duration 75'31 
Medium cd (1)
Music from the court of King Janus at Nicosia (1374-1432)
The music from this CD is taken from the Cypriot Manuscript Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale, J.II.9.  
Year 1994 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 53 976 
Duration 77'02 
Medium cd (1)
Costanzo Festa (ca. 1480-1545)
Mass parts, Etc.
 
Year 1994 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 53 116 
Duration 67'52 
Medium cd (1)
Lagrime Di San Pietro
Orlando Di Lasso
 
Year 1993 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 53 373 
Duration 62'39 
Medium cd (1)
Codex Las Huelgas
Music from 13th Century Spain
 
Year 1993 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 53 341 
Duration 56'00 
Medium cd (1)
João Lourenço Rebelo (1610-1661)
Vesper Psalms and Lamentations
 
Year 1993 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 53 115 
Duration 63'43 
Medium cd (1)
Nicolas Gombert (ca. 1500-1556)
Music from the court of Charles V
 
Year 1992 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 48 249 
Duration 75'43 
Medium cd (1)
Febus Avant
Music at the Court of Gaston Febus (1331-1391)
 
Year 1992 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 48 195 
Duration 62'58 
Medium cd (1)
Awards Choc du Monde de la Musique 
10 de Répertoire 
Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Magnificat
 
Year 1992 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 48 039 
Duration 67'54 
Medium cd (1)
Italia Mia
Musical Imagination of the Renaissance
 
Year 1991 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 48 065 
Duration 67'30 
Medium cd (1)
Mateo Flexha El Viejo (1481-1553) : Las Ensaladas
 
Year 1991 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 46 699 
Duration 61'05 
Medium cd (1)
In Morte Di Madonna Laura
Madrigal cycle after texts of Petrarch
 
Year 1991 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 48 942 
Duration 62'11 
Medium cd (1)
La Dissection d’un Homme Armé
Six Masses after a Burgundian Song
 
Year 1991 
Label Sony 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 45 860 
Duration 58'30 
Medium cd (1)
Antoine Brumel (ca. 1460-1520)
Missa “Et Ecce Terrae Motus” a 12 voci, Sequentia “Dies Irae”
 
Year 1990 
Label Sony Classical Vivarte  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. SK 46 348 
Duration 66'44 
Medium cd (1)
Cypriot Advent Antiphons
Anonymous ca. 1390
This cycle of "O" Antiphons is part of the Christmas Vespers ceremony, centered around the Magnificat. In the present case, they are heavily troped, and end with a liturgical motet in a more triumphant mood.The music itself it thoroughly isorhythmic, and heavily syncopated. The pieces form a true cycle, linked by both a sequence of modality and motivic figures. This is the most elaborate sacred section of the huge Turin manuscript (Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS J. II 9), the one source for the Cypriot repertory.  
Year 1990 
Label Deutsche Harmonia Mundi  
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. RD77977 
Duration 57'24 
Medium cd (1)
O Cieco Mondo
Italian “Lauda” 1400 – 1700
 
Year 1990 
Label Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 
Conductor Paul van Nevel 
Cat. no. RD77865 
Duration 60'48 
Medium cd (1)
Latest cd-release
2012
The Eton Choirbook
One of the most important recordings of Huelgas Ensemble in the last years!
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