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Ensemble Organum, Marcel Peres - Codex Faenza

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Artist: Ensemble Organum, Marcel Peres
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1995-01-24
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
  1. De Toutes Flours - Gerard Lesne/Josep Benet/Josep Cabre
  2. Honte, Paour, Doubtance - Josep Benet/Josep Cabre/Malcolm Bothwell
  3. J'ay Grant Desespoir De Ma Vie - Gerard Lesne/Josep Benet/Josep Cabre
  4. Aquila Altera - Gerard Lesne/Josep Benet/Josep Cabre
  5. Deduto Sey
  6. Io Mi Son Uno Che Per Le Frasche - Gerard Lesne/Josep Benet/Josep Cabre
  7. Che Pena E Quest Al Cor - Josep Benet/Josep Cabre/Malcolm Bothwell
  8. O Ciecho Mondo - Gerard Lesne/Josep Benet/Josep Cabre
  9. Imperiale Sedendo Fra Piu Stelle - Josep Benet/Josep Cabre
  10. Le Ior
  11. De Toutes Flours
  12. Honte, Paour, Doubtance
  13. J'ay Grant Desespoir
  14. Aquilla Altera
  15. Deduto Sey
  16. Io Mi Son Uno Che Per Le Frasche
  17. Che Pena E Quest' Al Cor
  18. Constantia
  19. Alors Mon Cueur

Music reviews of Codex Faenza

Music Review: Ooops!
Rating: 2 Stars

Here's an example of how wrong-headed the great Marcel Peres can be at times, and of how desperately hard it is to perform medieval music well. I see that two previous reviwers have praised this CD highly; I can't imagine why. As a listening experience, it makes no sense to have all nine vocal works first and then ten instrumental works of the same style from the same source. But that's just the beginning of the problems. The countertenor, Gerard Lesne, is one of the prime Baroque soloists of our age, with a voice of incomparable natural richness. The other three singers are almost equally qualified, yet the ensemble is awful -- thick and muddy, over-freighted and under-articulated. The tempi are way too slow, the hockets hang over each other like horn players' bellies, and the whole butterfly sprightliness of this repertoire is melted into a texture reminiscent of a salted slug.
Then Peres sits down at his imaginary instrument, his clavicytherium, built I suspect after a painting by Fra Angelico or some contemporary. The thing has all the tonal charm of a schoolboy banging the rusty bars of the playground fence. Plus, Peres doesn't seem to play it very well.

Ensemble Organum has produced some of the finest recordings of early music ever made. Their CD of the Ockeghem Requiem, for instance, is immortal. But this one? "Ja ha," as my mormor used to say, "ever body make mistakes."
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