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2021-07-27 08:27:56
Celebrating Josquin 500 with viols, voices and more
The Francesco Linarol tenor viol (c 1540) This year is the 500th anniversary of Josquin's death and the sheer breadth of his music is being celebrated widely. The Linarol Consort of Renaissance viols is having festival of its own in August and September where they are joining with friends to celebrate the composer's music both live and online.First off, the Linarol Consort and soprano Héloïse Bernard will be exploring Josquin's chansons and instrumental music in Baisiez Moi in Folkestone (14/8/2021, online from 28/8/2021). Then the Consort and the men of the Binchois Consort perform Pie memorie in Leominster (20/8/21, online from 27/8/2021) where they imagine Josquin’s friends, colleagues and admirers coming together to pay their funeral respects with viols and voices in songs and motets of lamentation, ending with Jean Richafort’s profoundly moving Requiem in memoriam Josquin Desprez. Then lutenist Jacob Heringman will be performing Inviolata, his exploration of lute […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-04-14 02:23:18
RenMen Amuse and Edify
[…] plush acoustics particularly rewarded the very deep bass notes in the final phrase. Drinking songs of different periods and nations constituted the final group, and illustrated what a surprising variety of approaches exist within this category. Throughout the set the singers successfully provided the choral virtues of intelligibility and balance while avoiding any fatal prissiness. Proceeding chronologically, RenMen first sang “Tru, tru, trut avant il faut boire” (Tra la la! We Must Drink) by J. Richafort (c. 1480-c.1547), urging us to drink now because afterward we’ll be nothing but bones and shrouds. This fascinating fusion of sophisticated Renaissance polyphony and coarseness (some Low French was heard) began in unison and progressed to imitative counterpoint. Felix Mendelssohn’s contribution, “Liebe und Wein” (Love and Wine), in part took the form of a question-and-answer dialogue between baritone Sam Kreidenweis and the other singers, e.g., “What was plaguing your poor heart? —The pangs of […]
2013-06-12 02:00:00
Jean Richafort's Requiem, heard by Gerald Fenech. '... worthy of the most scrupulous investigation.'
2013-04-18 23:45:01
King's Singers (Signum Classics)Josquin des Prez, the most influential composer in the Flemish school of the early 16th century, died in 1521. Over the following decade, a whole generation of composers, many of them former pupils, wrote memorial works, often quoting material and techniques from Josquin's own music. The King's Singers' disc of those tributes centres on perhaps the most substantial of them: the Requiem in Memoriam Josquin Desprez composed by Jean Richafort (c1480–1550). Richafort, who worked at both the French court and in Bruges, may well have been a Josquin pupil, too, and his requiem, which borrows themes and devices from the older man's chansons, was one of the most successful of its time. But some of the shorter pieces grouped around it by composers who are very little known today contain the most striking music here, especially Hieronymus Vinders' seven-part O Mors Inevitabilis and Jacquet of Mantua's densely […]
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