Josquin Desprez - Motets & Chansons - The Hilliard Ensemble

[MarkDarnell-cqwy]

As they Always do - The Hilliard Ensemble takes Desprez's music to the pinnacle of Perfection!

[kerrywinter]

Sunday afternoon meditative music sent from heaven to ease this stressful world we’ve created.

[hwh]

Been decades since I listened to any of his music. Definitely mesmerizes and hypnotizes.

[oatmilkismyfav]

4:01 -- 4:40 is just breathtaking ---- I had literally dreamed about this exact melody and been searching for its name for so long. Today I finally found it, how could I know this exact melody in this nearly 600-year-old piece without listening to it before, I kept wondering. Life is just like magic.

[lekhine]

The first " Revolutionary" musician ever in history.
When Im 'listening josquin, something magical Happend in my soul .
Outstanding work that put josquin in the same level as "Leonardo"und "Beethoven".
Bravo und danke.

[eugenesheshenin]

Нard to listen without lump in one's throat. It's quite humbling to realize that music was written by a human - such otherwordly beauty. Josquin is a genius that still have to be fully accessed and reintroduced to public. Any hard-boiled modernist would kill for his serial composition abilities. 15th century we are talkingg about! Veritable audial architecht - contrapuntal artistry at its highest. So glad interest in polyphony is growing - so maybe more people would finally realize that Bach and Beethoven haven't came out from nothing. Without Josquin, Gezualdo, Palestrina, Tallis and Lassus none of that would of been possible. And, yes, The Hilliard Ensemble does supreme justice to his oevre.

[contadorjoaopedro]

Lindíssimo! Motetos deveriam ser ensinados e cantados em todas as capelas da Igreja Católica Apostólica Romana.

[stellamantikou]

I am not a religious person (even though I grew up in an Orthodox Christian environment) but his music is always so calming and humbling for me, it represents humanity at its finest, gives hope and a feeling that as a human being, I can and should do good to this world. I only wish there could be a way for him to know that his music would have this effect on people centuries after his demise... I guess that is the sad (an humbling) part of being mortal..! If you are reading this, I thank you and wish you a happy day, everyday!

[elisabethmariamalecki]

What a precious and wonderfull rainbow painted with the human voices, so light but deeper and stronger as we've ever heared before.

[andresbedoya]

Cuando era niño escuché una composición de Desprez que jamás he vuelto a escuchar. Qué triste. Me encanta. Tengo que tratar de escuchar toda su música. :)

[michaelerichund]

A (hopeful) Time & Track List:

00:00 01 Ave Maria, Gratia Plena (Motet)
06:47 02 Absalon fili mi (Motet)
11:17 03 Veni Sancte Spiritus (Motet)
19:25 04 De Profundis (Psalm 129) (Motet)
27:50 05 Scaramella va alla guerra & Scaramella fa la galla (Loyset Compére) 28:28 (Motets)
29:27 06 In te Domine speravi (Motet)
31:41 07 El Grillo (Motet)
33:33 08 Milles regretz (chanson a quatre voix)
35:32 09 Petite camusette (chanson a six voix)
36:36 10 Je me complains (chanson a cinq voix)
38:44 11 En l'ombre d'ung buissonet (chanson a trois voix)
40:57 12 Je ne me puis tenir d'aimer (chanson a cinq voix)
44:44 13 La Déploration De La Mort De Johannes (Jehan) Ockeghem (Nimphes Des Bois) (Motet)

Performers:
Tenors - Leigh Nixon, Nicholas Robertson, Paul Elliott, Rogers Covey-Crump
Counter-Tenors - Ashley Stafford, David James
Bass - Michael George, Paul Hillier
Ensemble - The Hilliard Ensemble
Director - Paul Hillier

Thank you for posting this beautiful music!

[therealzilch]

Josquin was a light in the darkness. The _Ave Maria_ is one of the most transcendentally beautiful pieces ever.

[graziellasanga]

Harmonie, quiétude, paix. Voix et vibrations juste magnifiques

[ВладимирШнейдер-гт]

In my opinion, <The Hilliard Ensemble> is one of the best performers of the works of the representatives of the Dutch school of polyphony, and Joaquin Desprez is one of the brightest figures of this school.

[PJCafaro]

Beautiful. A composer of genius, with great treatments by the ensemble.

[gerardgilbert]

Des chants pour faire vibrer le coeur; que d'harmonie !

[krystianr.]

The name of painting is "Christ among the Doctors" by Bernardino Luini.

[brysonstevens]

What a shame that with musical education the beginning is usually with Vivaldi and Handel, maybe a footnote of Palestrina. What a wealth of music we miss by not giving Ockgheam, Perez, Palestrina, and more there due respect. Something about the simplicity of the music is what gives me such enjoyment. In many ways it is the least 'pretentious' music in that you don't need to have a music degree to understand what is being communicated, just Divine Simplicity that is God.

[ulrichdannenbaum]

00:00 01 Ave Maria, Gratia Plena (Motet)

06:47 02 Absalon fili mi (Motet)

11:17 03 Veni Sancte Spiritus (Motet)

19:25 04 De Profundis (Psalm 129) (Motet)

27:50 05 Scaramella va alla guerra & Scaramella fa la galla (Loyset Compére) 28:28 (Motets)

29:27 06 In te Domine speravi (Motet)

31:41 07 El Grillo (Motet)

33:33 08 Milles regretz (chanson a quatre voix)

35:32 09 Petite camusette (chanson a six voix)

36:36 10 Je me complains (chanson a cinq voix)

38:44 11 En l'ombre d'ung buissonet (chanson a trois voix)

40:57 12 Je ne me puis tenir d'aimer (chanson a cinq voix)

44:44 13 La Déploration De La Mort De Johannes (Jehan) Ockeghem (Nimphes Des Bois) (Motet)



Performers:

Tenors - Leigh Nixon, Nicholas Robertson, Paul Elliott, Rogers Covey-Crump

Counter-Tenors - Ashley Stafford, David James

Bass - Michael George, Paul Hillier

Ensemble - The Hilliard Ensemble

Director - Paul Hillier



Thank you for posting this beautiful music!

[leonardhall]

before listening to this music, I thought it would be very boring and simple, but it sounds more interesting and more structured and complex than I thought unaccompanied Renaissance polyphonic vocal music would sound. It sounds very good, pleasing, and tranquil, and to think it comes from the mid-1400's!