Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Timor Mortis - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This program focuses on the Missa pro defunctis by the composer Charles d'Argentil. Recorded for the first time here, it is one of only a dozen musical settings of the liturgy of the dead written before 1550 to have survived to this day. Little-known today, Charles d'Argentil, who worked in the prestigious Papal Chapel in Rome, was a key figure in the French Renaissance, as well as in the establishment of musical settings of the Requiem for papal ceremonies. His setting sits alongside the three Lamentations du samedi saint by Claudin de Sermisy, composer to the French royal chapel under François I, and Jehan Barra's Salve Regina. The Gilles Binchois ensemble here sheds light on an all-too-often overlooked part of musical history, through the generation that directly followed Josquin des Prés. The art of these three composers bears witness to the high level of mastery attained by that productive and talented generation. Album Tracks 1. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis I. Introit 2. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis II. Kyrie 3. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis III. Séquence 4. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis IV. Pie Jesu 5. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis V. Sanctus 6. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis VI. Agnus Dei 7. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis VII. Communion 8. D'argentil Missa Pro Defunctis VIII. Répons 9. Sermisy Lamentations Lectio I 10. Sermisy Lamentations Lectio II 11. Sermisy Lamentations Lectio III 12. Barra Salve Regina