Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel – The Music Prints of Christophe Plantin (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:24 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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The French printer-publisher Christophe Plantin (1520-1589), who has lived in Antwerp more or less all of his adult life, is not just anyone. He is credited with some two thousand publications, an absolutely astounding number in this era in which everything was done by hand, including the press done page after page, and yet he’s managed to publish a new book approximately every week during his 34-year career, with more than a thousand copies for each—up to eight thousand copies for his Hebraic Bible. His workshop included sixteen hand presses, served by thirty-two printers, twenty typographers, three proofreaders and many servants of all kinds: a true company. Hisopus magnum is a Bible in five languages: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaean and Syriac. He is also credited with works in the fields of medicine, botany, cartography, anatomy, mathematics, religion of course… And yes, also music! Because he published several major partitions, gathering contemporary sacred works from Jacobus De Kerle, Palestrina, Philippus De Monte, as well as several chansonniers gathering pieces from Andries Pervenage, Claude Le Jeune and colleagues. It is in this incredible stock that the beautiful Ensemble Huelgas drew, alternating between profane and sacred, choral and soloist, a sort of condensed musical Renaissance oscillating between ferocious Catholics (Antwerp was then under Spanish domination, and Philip II was very touchy about religion) and rebellious Protestants.
Tracklist:
1-01. Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel – Epitaphe de Christophe Plantin: Pleurez Muses (a 5) (06:55)
1-02. Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel – Missa da Pacem Domine: Agnus Dei (a 6 & 9) (05:14)
1-03. Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel – Trois fois heureux et gracieux (Chanson a 5) (04:26)
1-04. Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel – Missa si ambulavero: Sanctus & Agnus Dei (a 6) (07:53)
1-05. Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel – Fay que je vive (Chanson) (03:58)
1-06. Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel – Conditor alme siderum (Hymn a 4, 5 & 6) (07:22)
1-07. Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel – Sur tous regretz (Chanson a 5) (04:46)
1-08. Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel – Missa Praeter rerum seriem: Gloria (a 7) (06:26)
1-09. Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel – Je suis tellement amoureux (Chanson) (02:22)
1-10. Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel – La nuict le jour (Chanson a 6) (04:31)
1-11. Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel – Missa Praeter rerum seriem: Agnus Dei (a 7 & 8) (06:17)
1-12. Huelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel – Quell’eau, quel air, quel feu (Chanson a 4) (06:09)
