Utopia Ensemble: Manchicourt: Requiem for an Emperor - COMPACT DISCS

Utopia Ensemble: Manchicourt: Requiem for an Emperor - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Manchicourt: Requiem for an Emperor

Artist:

Utopia Ensemble

Label:

Ramee

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

4250128524018

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2025-02-14

Number of Discs:

1

Charles V was certainly the most powerful and charismatic of the Renaissance rulers. Exhausted and worn down by the challenges of imperial rule, he abdicated towards the end of his life and led a secluded existence in the monastery of Cuacos de Yuste in Castile under the motto 'Ecce elongavi fugiens et mansi in solitudine' ('I fled and remained in solitude'). The Utopia Ensemble seeks out the man behind the monarch and examines the duality of power and greatness as well as solitude. Pierre de Manchicourt - court composer to Charles's son and director of the famous Capilla Flamenca - could well have written his Requiem for one of the countless commemorations of Charles V. It radiates serenity and splendour and is juxtaposed here with chansons that moved the heart beneath Charles's imperial armour.

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