Gramophone Award for Spatial Audio, 2021
Josquin des Prez
The Golden Renaissance
Stile Antico launches a trilogy of recordings on the Decca label with a portrait of Josquin des Prez, marking the 500th anniversary of the composer’s death. The superb Missa Pange lingua forms the centrepiece of a varied sequence of motets and chansons, including some of Josquin’s best loved music – Ave Maria, virgo serena and Inviolata, integra et casta es Maria – as well as the premiere recording of the chanson Vivrai je tousjours. Two works dedicated to Josquin’s memory, by Hieronymus Vinders and Jacquet de Mantua, complete this sumptuous programme.
Recorded: July, 2020
Label: Decca Classics
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: 485 1340
Cohesion and clarity of purpose… the tone is luminous, textures are admirably clear. It’s hard to fault Stile Antico’s execution… Those final laments make a heartfelt impression indeed.
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Stile Antico: the finest group to appear in Renaissance music in two decades. This CD is as brilliant, immaculate and striking as its predecessors.
Christophe Huss, Le Devoir (12 February, 2021)
A great introduction for the Josquin novice… In a nice touch, Stile has also included two motets by the composer’s contemporaries – emotive musical homages, both – giving some sense of his extraordinary legacy.
Alexandra Coghlan, The Tablet (4 February, 2021)
Two laments on the death of Josquin… provide a fitting and stirring conclusion to this compelling recording.
Christian Carey, Sequenza 21 (26 March, 2021)
- Josquin: Salve Regina a5
- Plainchant: Pange lingua
- Josquin: Kyrie from Missa Pange lingua
- Josquin: Ave Maria, virgo serena
- Josquin: Gloria from Missa Pange lingua
- Josquin: Inviolata integra et casta es Maria
- Josquin: Credo from Missa Pange lingua
- Josquin: Vivrai je tousjours
- Josquin: El grillo
- Josquin: Sanctus from Missa Pange lingua
- Josquin: Virgo salutiferi genitrix
- Josquin: Agnus Dei from Missa Pange lingua
- Vinders: O mors inevitabilis
- Jacquet de Mantua: Dum vastos Adriae fluctus