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The Magic of Polyphony

2020 | Sony Music / Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

The Magic of Polyphony

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For several years, the Huelgas Ensemble had been looking for a suitable place to set up its own festival. In 2019, the time had finally come: Talant, a small village situated on an altitude a few kilometres from Dijon, the Burgundian capital, turned out to be the perfect setting - quiet (no shops, cafés or restaurants), and with a Romanesque church endowed with heavenly acoustics.


The festival of seven concerts given by the Huelgas Ensemble over the Whitsun weekend was recorded by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi. With a wide selection of works, this release offers a fascinating sound journey through the magical world of polyphony, and an aural document that represents the three pillars of the festival: unknown repertoire, unjustly obscure composers and experiments that fall outside the normal concert season.

Tracks

  • Antoine Busnois (c.1430-1492) : Bel Acueil, rondeau à 3

  • Giovanni Pietro del Buono (c.1640) : Obligo sopra Ave maris stella à 4

  • Nicolas Gombert (c.1495-1560) : Triste départ, chanson à 5

  • Pierre de la Rue (c.1460-1518) : Sanctus 'Sub tuum presidium' à 4

  • Anonymous (France, c.1350) : Très doux compains, chasse à 3

  • Anonymous (Picardy, c.1520) : Agnus Dei 'Miserere mihi Domine' à 8

  • Fray José de Vaquedano (1642-1711) : Lamentaçiones Jeremiae Prophetae à 8

  • Fray José de Vaquedano : Lamentaçiones Jeremiae Prophetae à 8

  • Anonymous (Werden Abbey, c.900) : In exitu Israel, organum purum à 2

  • Richard Loqueville (c.1370-1418) : Sanctus vineus à 4

  • Giovanni de Macque (c.1548-1624) : lo piango o Filli, madrigal à 5

  • Thomas Crecquillon (c.1505-1557) : Andreas Christi famulus, motet à 8

  • Claude Le Jeune (c.1530-1600) : Que null' étoile sur nous, chanson à 3 & 5

  • Mabrianus de Orto (c.1460-1529) : Agnus Dei 'Missa Dominicalis' à 4

  • Willem Ceuleers (*1962) : Voi ch'ascoltate, madrigal à 5

  • Nicolas Gombert (c.1495-1560) : Agnus Dei 'Missa Tempore Paschali' à 6 & 8

  • Anonymous (Italy, c.1380) : Cum martelli, ballatà à 3

  • Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) : Virga Jesse, motet à 4

  • Jacobus Vide (c.1395-c.1441) : Il m'est si grief, rondeau à 3

  • Cipriano de Rore (1516-1565) : Dissimulare etiam sperasti, à 5, 6 & 7

  • Mikolaj Zielenski (c.1550-1615) : Vox in Rama, motet à 4

  • Pierre de Manchicourt (c.1510-1564) : Faulte d'argent, chanson à 8

  • Anonymous (Cyprus, c.1390) : O radix Yesse, isorhythmic motet à 4

  • Anonymous (Germany, c.1540) : Ach Elselein, liebes Elselein, chanson à 2

  • Pieter Maessens (c.1505-1563) : Tota pulchra es, à 5

  • Gilles Joye (1424-1483) : Ce qu'on fait à quatimini, rondeau à 3

  • Nicolas Gombert (c.1495-1560) : Regina caeli, motet à 12

  • Thomas Crecquillon (c.1505-1557) : Pis ne me peult venir, chanson à 5

  • Orlandus Lassus (1532-1594) : Lamentationes feria sexta in parasceve, à 5

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