Missa O Crux lignum
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BUSNOIS
Missa O Crux lignum
The Orlando Consort
[ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 29 July 2013
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The music of Antoine Busnois has inspired intense interest in recent times. With this survey of the different genres - sacred and secular - in which Busnois excelled, the Orlando Consort demonstrates the composer's supreme technical mastery, his melodic flair, and his rhythmic vitality. A comprehensive portrait of an early-Renaissance genius.
This title was released for the first time in 2005.
"Antoine Busnois (c1430-1492) was one of the most prominent composers in the Burgundian ducal court in the second half of the 15th century. He had been a pupil of Ockeghem, and achieved much of his fame through his songs, but he wrote sacred music too, and the centrepiece of this carefully designed collection, all of it beautifully sung by the all-male Orlando Consort, is the mass O Crux Lignum.
Around that are groupings of secular chansons and a pair of motets; it's extrovert music of wide-ranging melodic lines and textures which are full of unexpected harmonic twists and darting changes of pace. You can hear why Busnois's music was admired so much by the Venetian madrigalists of the beginning of the 16th century." (The Guardian)
