Johannes Ockeghem: Au travail suis; De plus en plus

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The Tallis Scholars' exemplary contribution to the Ockeghem 500th anniversary commemoration in 1997 includes two four-voice Masses and the three-voice secular songs on which they are based. The first item on the disc, De plus en plus (written by Ockeghem's contemporary Binchois) gets a livelier performance than 14th-century chansons typically do; the Mass (which shares only a tenor melody with the chanson) is more subdued and gets an appropriately reverent reading. Au travail suis is one of Ockeghem's most beautiful secular works; its haunting opening phrase begins each movement of the Mass. Phillips and his singers give both works clear and convincing performances. --Matthew Westphal

Johannes Ockeghem: Au travail suis; De plus en plus, Music, Barbingant, Gilles de Bins dit Binchois, Johannes Ockeghem, Caroline Trevor, Leigh Nixon, Philip Cave, Sally Dunkley, Chanson, Choral, Classical, Classical Music, Renaissance Mass, Rondeau, Vocal
Johannes Ockeghem: Au travail suis; De plus en plus
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Good Standard Renaissaince Faire.
 Johannes Ockeghem: Au travail suis; De plus en plus

Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

RondosRondos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
Sacred & ReligiousSacred & Religious | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ChansonsChansons | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
MassesMasses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
Renaissance (c.1450-1600)Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000001I5H
Release Date: 1997-02-11

Tracks:

  1. Chanson: De plus en plus
  2. Missa De Plus en Plus: Kyrie
  3. Missa De Plus en Plus: Gloria
  4. Missa De Plus en Plus: Credo
  5. Missa De Plus en Plus: Sanctus & Benedictus
  6. Missa De Plus en Plus: Agnus Dei I, II & III
  7. Chanson: Au travail suis
  8. Missa Au travail suis: Kyrie
  9. Missa Au travail suis: Gloria
  10. Missa Au travail suis: Credo
  11. Missa Au travail suis: Sanctus & Benedictus
  12. Missa Au travail suis: Agnus Dei I, II & III

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The Tallis Scholars' exemplary contribution to the Ockeghem 500th anniversary commemoration in 1997 includes two four-voice Masses and the three-voice secular songs on which they are based. The first item on the disc, De plus en plus (written by Ockeghem's contemporary Binchois) gets a livelier performance than 14th-century chansons typically do; the Mass (which shares only a tenor melody with the chanson) is more subdued and gets an appropriately reverent reading. Au travail suis is one of Ockeghem's most beautiful secular works; its haunting opening phrase begins each movement of the Mass. Phillips and his singers give both works clear and convincing performances. --Matthew Westphal

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Good Standard Renaissaince Faire........2006-11-03

Johannes Ockeghem's 'Au travail suis' plus material from Gilles de Bins dit Binchois and Barbingant (?) by the Tallis Scholars is a very good, well executed series of Renaissance liturgical pieces. I find, however, that it is simply not quite as interesting as the Tallis Scholars' performance of Jacob Obricht's 'Missa Maria Zart'. The latter recording gains from being a bit longer than the Ockeghem offering, and also for being the recording of a single Mass, with all the usual five parts, Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus & Benedictus, and Agnus Dei. The Ockeghem recording offers two different passes with these five parts, but neither seem to stand out quite so well as the Obrecht work or the later Palestrina masses.

I will suggest that the very nicest thing about the Ockeghem masses is that they are short, and therefore much less challanging if one is interested in using these pieces in an actual liturgy or as a part of a longer performance.

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