Thomas Crecquillon (c1505-1557) - Missa Mort m'a privé - The Brabant Ensemble

Opgenomen in Merton College, Oxford, 2004

GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION - EARLY MUSIC
GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE
CHOC DU MONDE DE LA MUSIQUE, FRANCE

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The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice, dirigent

1. Oeuil esgaré [2:45]
2. Missa Mort m'a privé - Kyrie [4:32]
3. Missa Mort m'a privé - Gloria [5:23]
4. Missa Mort m'a privé - Credo [8:31]
5. Missa Mort m'a privé - Sanctus [7:39]
6. Missa Mort m'a privé - Agnus Dei [6:47]
7. Mort m'a privé a 5 [2:13]
8. Caesaris auspiciis [4:37]
9. Mort m'a privé a 4 [2:29]
10. Cur Fernande pater [5:05]
11. Le monde est tel [1:58]
12. Praemia pro validis [7:42]
13. Congratulamini mihi [6:23]

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Pierre de Manchicourt (c1510-1564) -Missa Cuidez vous que Dieu nous faille - The Brabant Ensemble

Opgenomen in Merton College, Oxford, september 2005
Afbeelding: Quentin Metsys (c1466-1530)
"Cuides vous que Dieu nous faille" = Denkt U dat God ons tekort doet?

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GRAMOPHONE EDITORS CHOICE, JUNE 2007

“Recordings of this 16th-century composer are few and far between. But far from being simply a disc for avid collectors and library-fillers, the Brabant Ensemble under Stephen Rice make Manchicourt’s case with skill and verve, showing him to have been something of a master in exploring musical emotions and exploiting dramatic build-ups. (...)
A must-have disc from the Brabant Ensemble … First-rate music stirs this young ensemble to their finest disc yet”
-Gramophone

The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice

1. Regina caeli [4:02]
2. Cuidez vous que Dieu nous faille [Richafort] [1:59]
3. Peccantem me quotidie [7:08]
Missa Cuidez vous que Dieu nous faille
4. - Kyrie [4:07]
5. - Gloria [5:47]
6. - Credo [9:51]
7. - Sanctus & Benedictus [6:25]
8. - Agnus Dei [5:20]
9. Osculetur me [6:16]
10. Ne reminiscaris, domine [5:24]
11. Magnificat secundi toni [10:52]

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Nicolas Gombert (c1495-c1560) - Four- & Five-part Motets - The Brabant Ensemble

- Opgenomen in The Queen's College, Oxford, september 2006 -

"The motets show Gombert at his best and they’re exquisitely sung

Though Gombert has done increasingly well on disc in recent years, this is the first such venture to focus on the core of the man, which is his motets. What we know of his troubled life and extant music suggests that he was not a Laetentur coeli sort of composer, and so the opening Tribulatio et angustia is well chosen, being both one of the finest of them and setting the mood for the rest. Barely a minute has passed before the first of many dark spots of extreme and focused dissonance, yet such harmonic knots never tie up the line, which may be why I never felt overburdened by the predominant moods of Marian supplication and personal lamentation; indeed it’s one of very few discs of this repertoire I’ve been happy to play in its entirety, and then several times since.

This is in part a tribute to Gombert, who went to the well so often and never returned empty-handed; but also to the Brabant Ensemble and Stephen Rice, who researched Gombert’s motets for a doctorate. Rice believes in a largely steady tactus, which certainly suits the reflective nature of these works, but by encouraging an unusually individual and carefully balanced vocal response, he avoids the pitfalls of relentless consistency (Tallis Scholars) and arrided elision (one-per-part groups like Henry’s Eight and the Hilliard Ensemble). There is a welcome and (in this music) novel belief in the power of voices as voices rather than instrumental simulacra: try the sopranos halfway through Hortus conclusus est for erotic Mariolatry at its most disconcertingly sensual. Arise, make haste, as they sing, and hear this music."
-Peter Quantrill, Gramophone

The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice, dirigent

1. Tribulatio et angustia [8:58]
2. Hortus conclusus est [4:34]
3. Aspice Domine [10:40]
4. Virgo sancta Katherina [3:02]
5. monophony - Inviolata [1:44]
6. Inviolata, et casta es, Maria [7:43]
7. Ne reminiscaris, Domine [5:57]
8. Pater noster [5:07]
9. Ave Maria [4:32]
10. Ergone vitae [7:11]
11. Ave sanctissima Maria [6:37]

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