Cecus: Colours, Blindness & Memorial (Agricola & his contemporaries) | Glossa - Platinum GCDP32105

Cecus: Colours, Blindness & Memorial (Agricola & his contemporaries)

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Label: Glossa - Platinum

Cat No: GCDP32105

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 18th October 2010

Contents

About

To complete a triptych of recordings presenting an alternative view of performance practice from across a century of Franco-Flemish polyphony, Björn Schmelzer and Graindelavoix now turn their attention to music by Alexander Agricola and his contemporaries in Cecus.

Following on from their two earlier albums, Joye and La Magdalene, Cecus concerns itself with music associated with blind players (notably two fiddlers from Bruges) and memory and commemoration (laments on the deaths of Agricola and Johannes Ockeghem) coming from the chapel of Philippe le Beau and Juana of Castile.

Alexander Agricola’s own musical world – and especially Cecus non judicat de coloribus [The Blind Do Not Distinguish Colours] – crosses the border between theory and practice, between flamboyant experience and rational construction and constantly evokes blindness in relation to memory and written or improvised music, but also in connection with those songs of mourning.

Graindelavoix’s new CD for Glossa promises polyphony in sharply-articulated, richly-coloured performances, provided with athletic vocal gestures by Schmelzer and his Antwerp-based ensemble of musicians from Spain, Estonia, the UK, France and Belgium.

Recorded in Duisburg (Belgium) in February 2010.

Contents:
I. Memorial
– Romance de la muerte... (Anonymous)
– Plorer, gemir / Requiem (La Rue)
– 3 Delicta juventutis (La Rue)
– Absalon fili mi (La Rue)
– Doleo super te (La Rue)

II. Colours & blindness
– Cecus non judicat de coloribus, I & II (Agricola)
– Fortuna desperata (Agricola)
– Si dedero (Agricola)
– L’eure est venue (Agricola)
– Je n’ay dueil (Agricola)
– Musica quid defles (Anchieta)
– De profundis clamavit (Champion)
– Nymphes des bois (Desprez)

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