Pipelare / Sound & The Fury - Masses - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Karel Ancerl - Vitava / Symphony No 9 [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/30/2010

Only a few compositions by Firminus Caron (ca.1440 - ca.1475) have outlasted the centuries. These three CDs represent almost all of his existing compositions (including five masses). Along with Ockeghem and Busnois, he was named as one of the leading composers of his time by renowned Flemish composer and music theorist Johannes Tinctoris.

This is The Sound and the Fury's second album with masses by Johannes Ockeghem. The composer develops his art from the contrast between different modes as well as the contrapuntal combination of identical melodies. Despite the complicated compositional techniques used, the overwhelmingly emotional experience of Ockeghem's music continues to fascinate even after 500 years. The Sound and the Fury was founded in 2005. An Anglo-German vocal group convening in Brixen and Vienna, the ensemble specializes entirely in performance of renaissance polyphony of the Franco-Flemish school.