For it's new Glossa release of Josquin, Cantica Symphonia (which has given us recordings of Dufay, Isaac and Busnois in recent years) reflect modern performance thinking for one of the greatest composers in music. Giuseppe Maletto has united a strong group of Italian singers to provide distinctive accounts of motets including the Stabat Mater, the five-part Salve Regina, the seven-sectioned Vultum tuum cycle as well as the Ave Maria... virgo serena. To leaven this vocal density a team of organ, harp, fiddle, slide trumpet and sackbut add instrumental versions of a group of Josquin's secular compositions, as well as selectively combining with the voices in the polyphony. Marco Bizzarini's booklet essay traces Josquin's elusive career path, which included Rome, Ferrara and possibly also Milan, and the importance in his output of sacred compositions of Marian works.

Tracklist:

Stabat Mater
Bergerette Savoyenne
Ave Maria, Gratia Plena, Virgo Serena
La Bernardina
Ecce Tu Pulchra Es
De Tous Biens Plaine For 4 Voices
Salve Regina For 5 Voices
Entré Je Suis En Grant Pensée For 4 Voices
Benedicta Es, Cælorum Regina
Fortuna Desperata
Vultum Tuum Deprecabuntur: No. 1, Vultum Tuum
Vultum Tuum Deprecabuntur: No. 2, Sancta Dei Genitrix
Vultum Tuum Deprecabuntur: No. 3, Intemerata Virgo
Vultum Tuum Deprecabuntur: No. 4, O Maria, Nullam Tam Gravem
Vultum Tuum Deprecabuntur: No. 5, Mente Tota Tibi Supplicamus
Vultum Tuum Deprecabuntur: No. 6, Ora Pro Nobis Virgo
Vultum Tuum Deprecabuntur: No. 7, Christe, Fili Dei
Nymphes, Nappés - Circumdederunt Me

UPC: 8424562319097
Label: Glossa
Release Date: 11.6.20
Format: CD

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