Gaude Virgo: de la Rue - Missa Cum jocunditate (The Den Bosch Choirbooks Vol.1)
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Label: Challenge Classics
Cat No: CC72877
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 30th July 2021
Contents
Works
Alleluia - Ave MariaBeata viscera
Benedicta et venerabilis
Cum jocunditate
O salutaris Hostia
Pater noster
Prefatio (plainchant)
Salve sancta parens (plainchant)
Sub tuum presidium
Verbum bonum et suave
Gaude virgo
Missa 'Cum iocunditate'
O salutaris Hostia
Artists
Cappella PratensisWim Diepenhorst (organ)
Conductor
Stratton BullWorks
Alleluia - Ave MariaBeata viscera
Benedicta et venerabilis
Cum jocunditate
O salutaris Hostia
Pater noster
Prefatio (plainchant)
Salve sancta parens (plainchant)
Sub tuum presidium
Verbum bonum et suave
Gaude virgo
Missa 'Cum iocunditate'
O salutaris Hostia
Artists
Cappella PratensisWim Diepenhorst (organ)
Conductor
Stratton BullAbout
The disc is also an homage to Hieronymus Bosch. Cappella Pratensis is an experienced ensemble with a rich discography of polyphonic works on Challenge Classics. They perform according to the rules of a strictest musicological and practice research.
Music clearly fascinated the great Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450- 1516); his sketches and paintings are peppered with closely observed depictions of music-making and musical instruments. Bosch, a native of ’s-Hertogenbosch in the Duchy of Brabant, was a life-long brother of the city’s Brotherhood of Our Illustrious Lady, a large and prestigious organization for which sacred music was an essential and highly-valued part of its devotional life.
Every Wednesday Bosch could gather with his Confraternity brothers in their opulent chapel in the church of St John the Evangelist to celebrate a votive Mass in honour of the Blessed Virgin.
This recording aims to capture a sense of the devotional soundscape that Bosch experienced throughout his life as a member of this music-loving Marian brotherhood. Instead of the frightening cacophony conjured by the artist’s vision of Hell, we encounter here the joy and serenity of the weekly Marian votive Mass liturgy. We have chosen the Missa Cum jocunditate by Pierre de la Rue (c.1452-1518), who was not only the most renowned composer of the Habsburg-Burgundian court but also an external member of the brotherhood from the early 1490s until his death in 1518. Indeed, la Rue may well have had occasion to meet Bosch during these years.
Cappella Pratensis sings from the original notation, reading from scale copies of the confraternity’s manuscripts of plainsong and polyphony, and adopts the Brabant pronunciation of Latin those singers surely employed. They also read together from one large music book, like the men portrayed in the Singers in the Egg sketch attributed to Bosch.
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