ALBUMJosquin des Prez: Miserere mei DeusCappella Amsterdam & Daniel Reuss
ALBUMJosquin Desprez: Messes Fortuna - Desperata Une Musque de BiscayeEnsemble vocaux Biscantor ! et Métamorphoses, Ensembles Biscantor ! et Métamorphoses & Juliette de Massy
ALBUMSoundscape - Leonardo da VinciCapella de la Torre
ALBUMJohannes de Lublin Tablature: Keyboard Music from Renaissance PolandCorina Marti
ALBUMThe Spirit Like a DoveApollo5 & Ingenium Ensemble
ALBUMSong of Songs - Canticum SalomonisCappella Mariana & Vojtěch Semerád
ALBUMSacred Music By Ockeghem & JosquinCapilla Cayrasco & Eligio Luis Quinteiro
ALBUMLuther, The Noble Art of MusicInAlto & Utopia
ALBUMPange Lingua: Music for Corpus Christi (Bonus Track Version)Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & Graham Ross
ALBUMMelancholy & MirthOpus 8
ALBUMLa chapelle des chantres des ducs de LorraineCantus Figuratus Ensemble & La Traditora
ALBUMWhite HurricaneUniversity of Michigan Chamber Choir & Jerry Blackstone
ALBUMJosquin - Missa Di dadi & Missa Une mousse de BiscayeThe Tallis Scholars & Peter Phillips
ALBUMAntonio de Cabezón (1510-1566). Entre lo Sagrado y lo MundanoIgnacio Ribas Taléns
ALBUMItalian Lute Virtuosi of the RenaissanceJakob Lindberg
ALBUMA Cappella I.Ferenc Liszt Choir Society & Péter Kővári
ALBUMMusik der RenaissanceWiener Blockflötenensemble
ALBUMDi guerra e di pace: Renaissance Music for Winds & PercussionLa Pifarescha
ALBUMJosquin et Condé sur l’EscautEnsemble Métamorphoses, Ensemble Biscantor & Maurice Bourbon
ALBUMMusic for Lent and PassiontideThe Lay Vicars of Chichester Cathedral
ALBUMOrlando di Lasso: Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah / Josquin des Pres: De profundis clamavi ad Te (Out of the Depths have I Cried unto Thee) / Josquin des Pres: Ave MariaThe Dessoff Choirs & Paul Boepple
ALBUMEs naht ein LichtOctavians
ALBUMGrainger: Music for SaxophonesJoyce Griggs
ALBUMEs naht ein LichtOctavians
ALBUMLe mystère de "Malheur me bat"Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel
ALBUMLars NiederstrasserLars Niederstrasser & The Four Baritones
ALBUMIn Flanders' Fields, Vol. 89: Five Centuries of Flemish Harpsichord MusicJan Devlieger
ALBUMAlma, svegliate ormaiAnonima Frottolisti
ALBUMRecorder Music of Six CenturiesLaNoue Davenport, Robert Dorough, Erich Katz, Bernard Krainis, Herbert Kellman & The Recorder Consort of the Musicians' Workshop
ALBUMAmours amours amoursKarl-Ernst Schroder & Crawford Young
ALBUMG. Silbermann Orgel der Petrikirche in FreibergAlexander Koschel
ALBUMThe Spirit DelightsMusica Spei
ALBUMWater Music - Tales of Nymphs and SirensCapella de la Torre & Katharina Bäuml
ALBUMCodex Speciálník (Arr. for Guitar)Noël Akchoté
ALBUMThe Music of the InvisibleGotham Chant
ALBUMThe Boys Town Choir: Mid Century RecordingsThe Boys Town Choir, Msgr. Francis Schmitt & Emmanuel Leemans
ALBUMJosquin Des Prez: Chansons, Vol. 2 (Arr. for Guitar)Noël Akchoté
ALBUMIntimate VihuelaJohn Griffiths
ALBUMLute Works, 1517Paolo Cherici
ALBUMDes Prez: Sacred Works, Vol. 1 (Arr. for Guitar)Noël Akchoté
ALBUMGombert: A la incoronationEnsemble Pian & Forte
ALBUMThe Legend of Josquin DesprezEnsemble La Sestina
ALBUMMusic of the Gothic Period and the Early Renaissance Played on Ancient InstrumentsVielle Trio, Franz Siedersbeck, Beatrice Dohme, Werner Landshoff & Du Bose Robertson
ALBUMJosquin Des Prez: Chansons, vol. 1 (Arr. for Guitar)Noël Akchoté
ALBUMBryant Park QuartetBryant Park Quartet
ALBUMUn Libro de Horas de Isabel la CatólicaPaolo da Col
ALBUMJ. Desprez: Missa Gaudeamus & Motets à la Vierge - Desprez Recordings, Vol. 4Ensemble a Sei Voci, A Sei Voci, Maîtrise des Pays de Loire, Bernard Fabre-Garrus & Josquin Des Prez
ALBUMJ. Desprez: Missa pange lingua & Motets - Desprez Recordings, Vol. 5Ensemble a Sei Voci, A Sei Voci, Maîtrise des Pays de Loire, Bernard Fabre-Garrus & Josquin Des Prez
ALBUMMissa Ave Maris StellaCappella Pratensis
ALBUMCoro De Cámara Nova Mvsica. Selección XX Aniversario Vol. I, Repertorio ProfanoNovamvsica, Coro de Cámara Nova Mvsica, Cámara Nova Mvsica & Eduardo Gallardo de Gomar
ALBUMJosquin Des Prez: MessesMetamorphoses Biscantor
ALBUMYo Te Quiere MatareEnsemble La Danserye
ALBUMSchweizer Lautenmusik der RenaissanceChristoph Greuter
ALBUMDesprez: Se congie prensEnsemble Musica Nova & Lucien Kandel
ALBUMSarosKhorikos
ALBUMLuther's Wedding DayKatharina Bäuml & Capella de la Torre
While scholarly detective work has greatly reduced the number of pieces formerly attributed to Josquin Des Prez, those that have passed the authenticity test confirm his status as the finest composer of the early 16th century. He was born Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez in northern France around 1450-55; little is known of his early life until 1477, when his name appears among the singers employed by the Duke of Anjou. He surfaces again in the employment of Milan’s ruling Sforza family and as a singer in the papal chapel in Rome. After further high-level jobs in France and Italy, he became provost of the collegiate church of Notre Dame in Condé-sur-l’Escaut in 1504 and remained there until his death in 1521. Several of his finest works, the chanson “Mille regretz” and two settings of the psalm De profundis almost certainly date from the composer’s Condé years. Josquin set aside the late-medieval fashion for seemingly endless contrapuntal lines in favour of polyphonic pieces built from short strands of melody subject to repetition or “imitation” in different voice parts, exemplified by his Marian motets Ave Maria … virgo serena and Alma Redemptoris mater - Ave regina caelorum. Josquin’s refined counterpoint and use of melodic inflection to project the emotions of a particular word or idea, although not without precedent, were groundbreaking in their quality and consistency of invention. His compositions, mainly sacred but with notable excursions into the field of secular French chanson and Italian song, served as models of best practice for well over 50 years after his death.
Hometown
Hainaut, Belgium
Genre
Classical
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