Composer: Antoine Busnois, Firminus Caron, Loyset Compère, Guillaume Dufay, Hayne van Ghizeghem, Johannes Ockeghem, Johannes Tinctoris
Performer: Gothic Voices, Elisabeth Paul, Stephen Charlesworth, Andrew Lawrence-King
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Linn
Catalogue: CKD700
Release: 2022
Size: 1.41 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. anon.: Terribilis est locus iste
02. Dufay: Mirandas parit hec urbs florentina puellas
03. Caron: Rose playsante odorant
04. Ockeghem: D’ung aultre amer
05. Ockeghem: Alma Redemptoris Mater
06. Compère: Dictes moy toutes voz pensées
07. Busnois: Mon seul et cele souvenir
08. Ockeghem: Aultre Vénus estes sans faille
09. Dufay: Lamentatio sanctae matris ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae: O tres piteulx de tout espoir / Omnes amici eius
10. anon.: Concupivit rex
11. Dufay: Du tout m’estoie abandonne
12. Ghizeghem: De tous biens plaine
13. Dufay: De ma haulte et bonne aventure
14. Agricola: J’ars de desir
15. anon.: Terribilis est locus iste
16. Tinctoris: Virgo Dei throno digna
17. Busnois: Terribile fortuna
18. anon.: Gloria patri
19. Dufay: Nuper rosarum flores
Following its “Gramophone Editor’s Choice” album “Echoes of an Old Hall”, Gothic Voice has recorded “The Splendour of Florence”, a collection of Franco-Flemish music that was found in or associated with Florence. Occupying pride of place, Dufay’s motet Nuper rosarum flores is widely thought to reflect the proportions of the newly completed dome of Florence cathedral, for which it was written at the cathedral’s consecration in 1436.
The other works – by Franco-Flemish composers Ockeghem, Busnois, Tinctoris, van Ghizeghem and others – are taken from a couple of Florentine chansonniers, which in turn document the wide dissemination of their music in the thriving Tuscan city. This album thus showcases Florence in all its splendour and lavishness, a city that proved a creative magnet for the highly-skilled and inventive compositional work of the outstanding composers of the Burgundian tradition.