Josquin Desprez - Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae / Motets

Hilliard Ensemble, Paul Hillier - Josquin Desprez - Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae / Motets

Josquin Desprez - Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae / Motets
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Artist: Hilliard Ensemble, Paul Hillier
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-07-14
Music Label: Angel Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Ave Maria... virgo serena, motet for 4 parts
  2. Absalon, Fili Mi, motet for 4 parts (poss. spurious)
  3. Veni, Sancte Spiritus, motet for 6 parts (doubtful)
  4. De profundis, motet for 4 parts (poss. spurious)
  5. In te Domine speravi, for 4 voices
  6. El grillo, for 4 voices
  7. Milles regretz, motet for 4 voices
  8. Petite camusette, motet for 6 voices
  9. Je me complains, motet for 5 voices
  10. En l'ombre d'ung buissonet, motet for 3 voices
  11. Je ne me puis tenir d'aimer, motet for 5 voices
Music CD 2
  1. Missa 'Hercules Dux Ferrariae', for 4 parts: Kyrie
  2. Missa 'Hercules Dux Ferrariae', for 4 parts: Gloria
  3. Missa 'Hercules Dux Ferrariae', for 4 parts: Credo
  4. Missa 'Hercules Dux Ferrariae', for 4 parts: Sanctus
  5. Missa 'Hercules Dux Ferrariae', for 4 parts: Benedictus
  6. Missa 'Hercules Dux Ferrariae', for 4 parts: Agnus Dei
  7. Pater noster -- Ave Maria, motet for 4 parts
  8. Lugebat David Absalon, motet for 8 voices
  9. Miserere mei Deus, for 10 voices
  10. To solus qui facis mirabilia, motet for 4 voices

Music reviews of Josquin Desprez - Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae / Motets

Music Review: RE UT RE UT RE FA MI RE
Rating: 5 Stars

That's the "cantus firmus" - the pattern of sustained notes around which the harmony is composed - of the Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae by Josquin Deprez (1440-1521). It translates into modern pitches as "D-C-D-C-D-F-E-D". It's derived from matching the vowels of the hexachord ut-re-mi-fa-so-la with the vowels of the name hErcUlEs dUx fErrArIE. Hercules in this cryptogram is Duke Ercole d'Este of Ferrara, to whom the mass was obviously dedicated. Those eight notes form the subtle melodic basis for the entire mass composition; they are heard again and again, sometimes almost subliminally, transposed to higher pitches, inverted, stretched and condensed. Renaissance polyphony is full of such cryptic coded messages, as well as remarkably complex mathematical puzzles expressed in the notation of the era. And occasionally, whole lines of the polyphony are not notated at all, but merely implied in a Latin rubric, effectively a riddle for the performers to enjoy while earning their keep by singing luxuriantly.

Josquin spent exactly one year - 1503 - living high at the Este court in Ferrara, during which time he wrote only two pieces as far as anyone knows. The larger piece, the Miserere, is included on this CD. The mass was probably written years before, when Ercole visited Rome. Josquin's patron, Cardinal Sforza, perhaps commissioned it as an elaborate compliment to the guest.

Whatever the history, this is one of Josquin's grandest and most polished compositions, a work of such exquisite proportions that it ought to be broadcast to the stars as evidence of intelligent life on Earth.

And this is one of the Hilliard Ensemble's most polished performances. To evoke the majesty of this music, the Hilliards -normally a quartet - added seven more male singers, including some who have become major stars in the sky of Early Music: Mark Padmore, Paul Agnew, etc. This is still not a "choral" performance, given that all the singers are solo-worthy and extremely familiar with the special art of singing polyphony. To my ears, their "ensemble" is astonishingly tight, and their expressive treatment of counter-rhythms and linear independence is as good as it gets.
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