The Musical Book of Hours
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Composer: Antoine BusnoisComposer: Byttering
Composer: Gregorian Chant
Composer: Guillaume Dufay
Composer: John Dunstable
Composer: Richard Hygons
Composer: Josquin Desprez
Composer: Johannes Ockeghem
Composer: Hilaire Penet
Conductor: Alexander Blachly
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-04-14
Music Label: Archiv Produktion
Soundtracks:
- Bon jour, bon mois, bon an et bonne estraine, rondeau for 3 voices
- In principio erat verbum, motet for 4 parts
- Intemerata Dei mater, motet for 5 voices
- Ave maris stella, hymn for 3 voices (2 versions)
- Magnificat in the 6th tone, for 4 voices
- Inviolata, integra et casta es, motet for 5 parts
- Virgo prudentissima, for chorus
- Venit ad Petrum
- Salve Regina
- Veni Sancte Spiritus, isorhythmic motet for 4 voices, MB 32
- En Katerine Solennia
- De profundis, motet for 4 parts (poss. spurious)
Music reviews of The Musical Book of Hours
Music Review: Beautiful Music
Rating: 5 Stars
This album is fantastic! I listen to it when I am writing, reading, or just want to relax. I am not of the Christian faith but I appreciate beautiful music. The songs are ethereal and filled with emotion. The voices transport you to another time, another place. I highly recommend this album!!
Description of The Musical Book of Hours
This is one of the most beautiful early music discs in the catalog--equally attributable to the music and to the perfectly tuned and blended voices, whose timbres couldn't be more appealing to the ear or more appropriate to the style of the repertoire. The very first track--a charming, gentle, hopeful little piece by Dufay, "Bon jour, bon mois, bon an"--leads us easily into the heart and spirit of this well-conceived program, which seeks to duplicate in music the expressive power and visual beauty of the richly illustrated Books of Hours--lovingly created volumes that were a cherished fixture of religious devotional practice in medieval and Renaissance Europe. Among the composers represented are Dufay, Desprez, Busnoys, Dunstaple, and Ockeghem. Put this at the top of your list. --David VernierGeneral CDs
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