Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble - L'heritage de Petrus Alamire (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 365 Mb | Total time: 75:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Cypres | # CYP1673 | Recorded: 2015
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 365 Mb | Total time: 75:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Cypres | # CYP1673 | Recorded: 2015
A treasure-house of the grand master of sixteenth-century musical calligraphy, the choirbooks of Petrus Alamire contain some stupendous and hitherto unpublished polyphonic works. Through the hand of the dedicated humanist that was Alamire – famous as a “guardian of the books” and as a spy within the most influential courts of the Renaissance, including those of Marguerite of Austria in Malines, Henry VIII of England and Charles V – the Huelgas Ensemble and Paul Van Nevel trace a portrait of this brilliant humanist in a programme that will take you to the very heart of the secrets of Renaissance polyphony.