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Manchicourt, Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble
Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus
Genres: Special Interest, Classical

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Reges Terrae (Motet a 6 For The Feast Of Epiphany)
2. Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus: Kyrie (a 6)
3. O Virgo Virginum (Motet a 6 For The Feast Of The Immaculate Conception)
4. Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus: Gloria (a 6)
5. Long temps mon cueur languissoit (a 4)
6. Faulte dargent cest douleur non pareille (a 8)
7. O cruaulte logee en grand beaulte (a 4)
8. Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus: Credo (a 6 - a 3)
9. Maria Magdalene (Motet a 5 For Easter Sunday)
10. Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus: Sanctus (a 6 - a 3)
11. Usqequo piger dormies (Motet a 4)
12. Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus: Agnus Dei (a 6)

CD Details

All Artists: Manchicourt, Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble
Title: Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Sony
Release Date: 4/1/1997
Genres: Special Interest, Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Renaissance (c.1450-1600)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 074646269428

Synopsis

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Paul van Nevel and his Huelgas Ensemble have made a practice of resuscitating the music of forgotten medieval and Renaissance composers (especially their Flemish compatriots). The subject of this disc is quite a find: Manchicourt was choirmaster to none other than Philip II. His music is unusual: He uses many false relations (dissonant cadences where the same note gets different accidentals in different voices) and he habitually leads up to cadences only to delay them. Still, it is eminently worth hearing, especially in these skilled hands. The Huelgas Ensemble has a dark Flemish tone color very different from the English choirs who dominate this repertory; while their performances sometimes seem flat and lacking in energy, their singing here is engrossing. --Matthew Westphal

CD Reviews

It's breathtakingly Beautiful

04/05/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I came across this kind of Renaissance polyphony choral music while taking a Music History course last semester at school. We were focusing on Renaissance music and the Cantus Firmus, when one day our teacher played Josquin Deprez's Gloria from the Ave Maris Stella Mass. I was blown away. Seriously, it was the most beautiful sound I had ever heard, well despite Oasis ofcourse. Anyways, i needed to get my hands on a record and listen to more. So I went out bought Josquin's Pange Lingua Mass which is also wonderfull and then purchased this record after hearing it at a listening station at Borders. It's beautiful. It hasnt been out of my CD player once since I bought it. I take the CD everywhere with me. It's great for the car when you're driving. The voices just blow you away. This unkown composer has sort of lived in Josquin's shadow as did most High Renaissance composers. This one surely needs to be recognized more. It's brilliant."