Giosquino: Josquin Desprez in Italia

 
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JOSQUIN DESPREZ
Giosquino: Josquin Desprez in Italia
Odhecaton / Paolo Da Col / The Gesualdo Six

[ Arcana / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 27 August 2021

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During the sixteenth century in Italy, the motto 'i galli cantano' (the Gauls are singing) circulated, acknowledging the supremacy of the Franco-Flemish 'transalpine' musicians who were summoned to the peninsula to serve princes and prelates in the techniques of composing and performing vocal polyphony. Josquin Desprez, 'Giosquino' to the Italians, was the emblematic figure: in addition to France, he was in the service of Cardinal Ascanio Sforza in both Milan and Rome (1484, 1498) and of the papal (1489-95) and Este chapels (1503-4). On the fifth centenary of the composer's death (1521), the Odhecaton ensemble proposes to retrace Josquin's Italian itinerary with the Missa Hercules dux Ferrariæ, composed for the Duke of Ferrara Ercole I d'Este, and a selection of motets commissioned by Italian patrons. The contribution of The Gesualdo Six in the more solemn pieces brings the vocal ensemble to twentytwo singers, a number that is close to the forces of the Rome and Ferrara chapels and yields new sonic results in our quest to recreate how polyphony sounded in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

Diapason d'Or October 2021 Nouveauté

'Odhecaton steer a middle course and opt for a bigger sound than either [The Hilliard Ensemble or De Labyrintho], something of which Ercole himself would have approved.' Gramophone Awards 2022 Finalist - Early Music

"Lacking the brightness of trebles or sopranos, the vocal sound is warm, dark, plangent - compared with the glassy textures of The Tallis Scholars (who've recently recorded Josquin's complete works), this is a velvet shroud. Col's expressive direction of the Hercules Mass and the choir's sable colours underscore the sense of pious sobriety that pervades this monumental work." BBC Music Five Stars

Tracks:

Praeter rerum seriem
Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae: I. Kyrie
Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae: II. Gloria
Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae: III. Credo
Tu solus qui facis mirabilia
Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae: IV. Sanctus
Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae: V. Agnus Dei
Fortuna d'un gran tempo
Virgo prudentissima
Inviolata, Integra Et Casta Es
La Bernardina
Salve Regina
Huc Me Sydereo
Inviolata, integra et casta

DESPREZ // 'Praeter rerum seriem, a 6: Prima Pars' by Odhecaton, The Gesualdo Six & Paolo Da Col