Ensemble Gilles Binchois: Timor Mortis - COMPACT DISCS

Ensemble Gilles Binchois: Timor Mortis - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Timor Mortis

Artist:

Ensemble Gilles Binchois

Label:

Evidence Classics

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

5051083198417

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2024-05-31

Number of Discs:

1

This program focuses on the Missa pro defunctis by the composer Charles d'Argentil. Recorded for the first time here, it is one of only a dozen musical settings of the liturgy of the dead written before 1550 to have survived to this day. Little-known today, Charles d'Argentil, who worked in the prestigious Papal Chapel in Rome, was a key figure in the French Renaissance, as well as in the establishment of musical settings of the Requiem for papal ceremonies. His setting sits alongside the three Lamentations du samedi saint by Claudin de Sermisy, composer to the French royal chapel under François I, and Jehan Barra's Salve Regina. The Gilles Binchois ensemble here sheds light on an all-too-often overlooked part of musical history, through the generation that directly followed Josquin des Prés. The art of these three composers bears witness to the high level of mastery attained by that productive and talented generation.

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