Composer: Emanuel Adriaenssen, Cornelius Canis, Thomas Crecquillon, Antoine de Févin, Nicolas Gombert, Pierre de Manchicourt, Nicolas Payen, Jean Richafort
Performer: Utopia Ensemble
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Ramée
Catalogue: RAM2401
Release: 2025
Size: 2.33 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Gombert: O malheureuse journee
02. Narváes: Mille regres (La Canción del Emperador)
Manchicourt: Missa de Requiem
03. I. Introitus
04. II. Kyrie
05. III. Graduale
06. IV. Offertorio
07. V. Sanctus
08. VI. Agnus Dei
09. VII. Communio
10. Crecquillon: Le monde est tel
11. Canis: Mariez moy mon père
12. Gombert: Ayme qui vouldra
13. Févin: Fors seulement
14. Richafort: Cuidez vous que Dieu nous faille
15. Canis: Si par souffrir
16. Crecquillon: Il me suffit de tous mes maulx
17. Gombert: Mort et fortune
18. Payen: Nunc dimittis
19. Adriaenssen: Slaepen gaen
Charles V was certainly the most powerful and charismatic of the Renaissance rulers. Exhausted and worn down by the challenges of imperial rule, he abdicated towards the end of his life and led a secluded existence in the monastery of Cuacos de Yuste in Castile under the motto ‘Ecce elongavi fugiens et mansi in solitudine’ (‘I fled and remained in solitude’). The Utopia Ensemble seeks out the man behind the monarch and examines the duality of power and greatness as well as solitude. Pierre de Manchicourt – court composer to Charles’s son and director of the famous Capilla Flamenca – could well have written his Requiem for one of the countless commemorations of Charles V. It radiates serenity and splendour and is juxtaposed here with chansons that moved the heart beneath Charles’s imperial armour.
