Composer: Antoine Brumel
Performer: Claire Williams, Alison Kinder, Musica Secreta
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Obsidian
Catalogue: CD719
Release: 2019
Size: 2.57 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Brumel: Heth, cogitavit
02. Brumel: Joth (Sederunt in terra)
03. Brumel: Lamed (Matribus suis dixerunt)
04. Brumel: Nun (Prophetæ tui viderunt)
05. Brumel: Gimel (Circumædificavit adversum me)
06. anon.: Ave Maris Stella
07. Josquin: Recordare, virgo mater
08. Moro: Sancta Maria succurre miseris
09. anon.: Jesus autem cum ieiunasset
10. anon.: Multiplicati sunt qui tribulant me
11. Compère: Paranymphus salutat virginem
12. anon.: Verbum caro factum est
13. anon.: Salve Regina
Based on a major new discovery, this recording features the complete setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah for Good Friday by Antoine Brumel, one of the most celebrated composers of the Renaissance. Brumel’s Lamentations have been known, performed, and recorded for many years in a much abbreviated form of two verses and the refrain, “Jerusalem, convertere.” The additional seventeen verses, which were found hiding in plain sight in a sixteenth-century manuscript by Musica Secreta’s co-director Laurie Stras, reveal a monumental setting that is both intricate in its detail and imposing in its formal construction; a masterpiece brought from darkness into light. The second half of the disc focusses on gems by Josquin des Prez and Loyset Compere sitting alongside the anonymous beauty of works that decorated the nuns’ worship throughout the year.