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Simone de Bonefont | Missa pro mortuis | Huelgas Ensemble

Total time: 58'21
Year: 2020
Format:
Type: Vocal
Period: Renaissance
Country: Belgium
Instrument: Singing

Price: €20,00
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REF: CYP1682

Nicolas GOMBERT (c.1495 - 1556)
Media vita in morte sumus
Simone DE BONEFONT (ca. 1500)
Missa pro mortuis
Orlandus LASSUS (1532-1594)
Media vita in morte sumus
Jacobus DE KERLE (1531-1591)
Media vita in morte sumus
Arnold VON BRUCK (1500-1554)
Mitten wir im Leben sind


Paul Van Nevel
HUELGAS ENSEMBLE


In perpetual search of unpublished works and forgotten composers, Paul Van Nevel invites us to discover a Requiem Mass for five voices, composed in 1556 by Simone de Bonefont, canon and cantor at Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral. The Missa pro mortuis can be considered as one of the highlights of polyphonic vocal style, encompassing all the characteristics of Franco-Flemish techniques of the period. The richness of de Bonefont’s polyphonic writing and his mastery of counterpoint are truly astonishing. True to form, the Huelgas Ensemble honours this unpublished score with a powerful interpretation, delivering music of incredible luminous tranquility. The programme also includes four compositions by Franco-Flemish masters - that de Bonefont may well have heard - on one of the most profound texts of the Gregorian repertoire: Media vita in mortesummus (In the midst of life we are in death).


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