Composer: Pierre Attaingnant, Vincenzo Capirola, Loyset Compère, Josquin Despres, Heinrich Isaac, Johannes Ockeghem
Performer: Doulce Mémoire, Clara Coutouly, Paulin Bündgen, Matthieu Le Levreur, Guillaume Olry
Conductor: Denis Raisin Dadre
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Ricercar
Catalogue: RIC436
Release: 2022
Size: 2.01 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Josquin: Si je perdoys mon amy / Par ung matin m’y levay
02. Josquin: Vivrai je toujours en telle paine
03. Josquin: Qui belles amours
04. Josquin: À l’heure que je vous p.x.
05. Capirola: Ricercar ottava
06. anon.: Petite camusette
07. Ockeghem: S’elle m’amera / Petite camusette
08. Josquin: Petite camusette
09. anon.: Mein hercz in hohen frewden ist
10. Josquin: Tant vous aime
11. Josquin: Belle pour l’amour de vous
12. Josquin: An avois
13. Josquin: Que vous madame / In pace
14. Isaac: Missa la Spagna: Agnus Dei
15. Josquin: El Grillo
16. Josquin: In te Domine speravi
17. Compère: Scaramella fa la galla
18. Josquin: Scaramella va alla guerra
19. Attaingnant: Basse dance Cueur angoisseux
20. Ockeghem: Ma bouche rit
21. Josquin: Ma bouche rit
22. Josquin: Bergerette Savoysienne
23. anon.: Bergeretta savoyena
24. Josquin: À l’ombre d’ung buissonnet
25. Josquin: Une jeune fillette, sur “Comment peult avoir joye”
Josquin Desprez, princeps musicorum, the prince of musicians, as his contemporaries called him, is best known today for his sacred works, the masses and motets, which have been widely performed and recorded. Surprisingly, his chansons have received little attention from performers, except for the pieces for five and six voices, printed after his death by the Antwerp publisher Tilman Susato in his seventh book of 1545. Doulce Mémoire has chosen to focus on the chansons for three and four voices, which are probably the earliest in the Hainault master’s output; with their diversity of language and themes (sometimes folk-derived), these songs constitute a varied programme that is at once serious and bawdy, a testament to the unequalled art of Josquin Desprez.