Josquin: Master of Musicians

Josquin: Master of Musicians

Josquin: Master of Musicians
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Composer: Heinrich Isaac
Composer: Josquin Desprez
Composer: Jean Japart
Composer: Alexander Agricola
Composer: Adrian Le Roy
Composer: Anonymous
Composer: Alonso
Composer: Tylman Susato
Composer: Marbrianus de Orto
Composer: Hans Gerle
Composer: Antoine de Fevin
Composer: Adrian Willaert
Composer: Francesco Spinacino
Composer: Jheronimus Vinders
Performer: Musica Antiqua London
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2000-09-19
Music Label: Signum UK
Soundtracks:
  1. Missa Comment poit avoir joie, mass for 4 (or 6) voices: Agnus Dei à 5
  2. Comment poit avoir joye, chanson for 3 voices (ii)
  3. Comment peult avoir joye, song for 5 parts
  4. Se congié prens, for 4 voices
  5. Si conge prens, for 3 voices
  6. Se congié prens, song for 6 parts
  7. Se congié prens, song for 6 parts
  8. Si j'avoye Marion, song for 3 parts
  9. Tourdion
  10. Petite camusette, song for 6 parts
  11. Fama malum, motet for 4 parts
  12. Dulces exuviae, motet for 4 parts
  13. De tous biens pleine, motet for 3 parts
  14. De tous biens pleine, motet for 4 parts
  15. Belle, tenes moi la promesse, for 3 voices
  16. Je me complains, song for 5 parts
  17. La tricotea Samartín à 3
  18. Berzerette savoyenne, song for 4 parts
  19. Bergerette 'Sans roch'
  20. Se je perdu mon amy, for 4 voices
  21. Si j'ay perdu mon amy, song for 3 parts
  22. Si j'ay perdu mon amy, song for 3 parts
  23. Plusieurs regretz, for 4 voices
  24. Mille regretz, song for 4 parts
  25. Mille regretz
  26. Mille regretz, for 3 voices
  27. Pavane 'Mille Regretz,' for renaissance ensemble (from Danseyre)
  28. Plaine de dueil, song for 5 parts
  29. Ce povre mendiant/Pauper sum ego, song for 3 parts
  30. Faulte d'argent
  31. Faulte d'argent, canonic chanson for 5 voices
  32. Faulte d'argent, chanson for 6 voices
  33. Adieu mes amours, song for 4 parts
  34. Adiu mes amours, for lute (Book 1)
  35. El grillo, song for 4 parts
  36. Le villain, song for 4 parts
  37. O mors inevitabilis (Lamentatio super morte Josquin des Pres)

Music reviews of Josquin: Master of Musicians

Music Review: Gems of Josquin's secular works in a lively performance
Rating: 5 Stars

Josquin Desprez (sometimes spelled des Pres) was considered the greatest composer of his time (1440-1521), and his stature has never diminished ever since.(*) Among his limited surviving works, his masses are most thoroughly studied, and 16 of them have already been recorded.(**) This CD under review reveals another side of the great Josquin, and focuses on his secular output.

Let me declare my conclusion upfront: This CD is outstanding! Indeed, it's only by a stroke of luck that I decided to purchase this CD. I have never heard of the group Musica Antiqua of London,(***) and the provincial title "Master of Musicians" almost sent me away. (The producer should think more highly of the potential buyers!) However, I was lured by the last track, the only recording available of "Lementatio super morte Josquin des Pres" by Josquin's student Vinders, and decided to give it a try. A pleasant surprise as it turns out: I have listened to the CD straight, twice in fact.

What's so attractive about this CD? First of all, the superb programming: It contains many of the Josquin's famous secular works, such as Mille regrets, El grillo, Adieu mes amours, and presents each alongside his contemporaries' settings of the same text. For example, there are 5 settings to the text of "Mille regretz" by Gerle, Josquin, an anonymous composer and 2 by Susato. Other composers featured in the disc are no less than Heinrich Isaac, Alexander Agricola and Adrian Willaert, among others. The inventive programming greatly enriches these otherwise short pieces, each ranging mostly 1-3 minutes. (There are no less than 37 tracks in this CD!)

Secondly, the performance is quite enjoyable. It emphasizes liveliness and vivacity over the kind of refinement we commonly hear in recordings of Josquin's masses.(+) There are occasional minor intonation and articulation problems, but it hardly matters. The ruggedness actually adds to the liveliness and "joy of music-making!"

Whether you are just about to climb the 16 summits of Josquin's masses or have already done so, this CD will greatly add to your listening pleasure.

Highly recommended.

"It has recently become a favourite intellectual game to compare Josquin's career with that of Beethoven. Essentially the point is that Josquin was as influential a composer in his time as Beethoven was in his; but the subplot is that Josquin ought to be taken as seriously as any later composer...." -- Peter Phillips

(*) A familiar story of Josquin illustrates his pre-eminence among the contemporary musicians. When Duke Ercole I d'Este sent his men in seeking of a new Maestro di Cappella at Ferrara in 1502, he got a report: "Isaac gets on better with his colleagues and composes new pieces more quickly. It is true that Josquin composes better, but he does it only when it suits him and not when you wish him to, and he is asking for a salary of 200 ducats, while Isaac will come for 120, but Your Lordship will decide...." Duke's choice? The great Josquin!

(**) Among Josquin's surviving masses, 16 has been recorded:
L'ami Baudichon, L'Homme Armé super voces, L'Homme Armé sexti toni, Ave Maris Stella, De Beata Virgine, Pange Lingua, Fortuna Desperata, Malheur me Bat, Mater Patris, Hercules Dux Ferrariae, La Sol Fa Re Mi, Sine Nomine, Ad Fugam, Gaudeamus, Di Dadi, Faysant Regretz. -- For recommended recordings by an expert I trust, see the comments below.

(***) Musica Antiqua of London, led by Philip Thorby, consists of 3 other core members: John Bryan, Alison Crum and Roy Marks. They pride themselves of being able to perform multiple instruments (including recorders, viols and crumhorns). In this recording, they are joined by instrumentalists Jacob Heringman (lute, guitar, viol) and vocalists Jennie Cassidy (Mez), Belinda Sykes(A), John Potter (T) and Robert Evans (Bar).

(+) It is educational to compare this CD with Ensemble Clement Janequin's CD Josquin: chansons. Two vastly different approaches with some overlaps of selection are both convincing.

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