JOSQUIN des PRES (c.1440-1521) Masses" Malheur me bat- Fortuna desperata" - The Tallis Scholars - Peter Phillips

JOSQUIN des PRES (c.1440-1521) Masses" Malheur me bat- Fortuna desperata" - The Tallis Scholars - Peter Phillips
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Recorded in the Chapel of Merton College , 2009

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The Mass-settings included on this disc are two of the finest to come from any pen. They are linked by having secular polyphonic songs as their models, coincidentally neither of which are safely attributed to any single composer. Malheur me bat is probably not by Ockeghem but by a little-known Flemish composer called Malcort, whose obscurity should not detract from the beauty of his song, nor from the fact that it became a favourite model for Mass-settings by composers active around the year 1500. How strange, then, that not one of the nine sources for it provides any words apart from the title - the performance given by The Tallis Scholars at the 2008 Promenade Concerts in the Royal Albert Hall, London, was made possible by commissioning a contemporary poet - Jacques Darras - to complete the text. The attribution of Fortuna desperata to Antoine Busnoys is more secure, though the manu­ script evidence is not conclusive. The two Masses sung here are also linked by the way Josquin borrowed his material from the chansons. Both of these chansons were three-voice compositions. Before Josquin the normal procedure in basing a Mass-setting on a chanson was to take one of the original voice-parts, often the tenor, and derive all the motifs to be used in the Mass from it. This was called paraphrasing a melody. However in these two settings Josquin went a stage further by plundering all three of the voice parts for quotable material, at a stroke tripling the stock of ideas he could draw on. Thus the art of parodying a poly­ phonic model was born, in which tradition Missa Fortuna desperata, which is reckoned to be earlier than Missa Malheur me bat, was one of the first. We can hear Josquin refining and developing these techniques in Missa Malheur me bat. Peter Phillips

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Performers:

The Tallis Scholars directed by Peter Phillips


Missa Malheur me bat:

Superius Tessa Bonner, Sally Dunkley, Caroline Trevor

Altus Andrew Carwood, Steven Harrold

Tenor Nicolas Todd, Christopher Watson

Bassus Donald Greig, Robert Macdonald

with, in Agnus Dei III

Altus: Mark Dobell, Julian Stocker
Bassus: Jonathan Arnold, Stephen Charlesworth

Missa Fortuna desperata:

Altus Tessa Bonner, Caroline Trevor, David Gould

Tenor Andrew Carwood, Nicolas Todd

Tenor Mark Dobell, Christopher Watson

Bassus Robert Macdonald, Tim Scott Whiteley

with, in the Agnus Dei

Bassus: Andrew Westwood

Track listings
1. Missa Malheur me bat: I. Kyrie
2. Missa Malheur me bat: II. Gloria
3. Missa Malheur me bat: III. Credo
4. Missa Malheur me bat: IV. Sanctus & Benedictus
5. Missa Malheur me bat: V. Agnus Dei I, II & III
6. Missa Fortuna desperata: I. Kyrie
7. Missa Fortuna desperata: II. Gloria
8. Missa Fortuna desperata: III. Credo
9. Missa Fortuna desperata: IV. Sanctus & Benedictus
10. Missa Fortuna desperata: V. Agnus Dei I & II




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