Marc Lewon, Ensemble Leones - Colours in the Dark: Instrumental music of Alexander Agricola (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 429 Mb | Total time: 81:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Christophorus | # CHR77368 | Recorded: 2012
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 429 Mb | Total time: 81:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Christophorus | # CHR77368 | Recorded: 2012
Agricola was already considered one of the 'old masters' soon after his death in 1506. His works were approached with veneration and, already in the early 16th century, regarded as examples of good and demanding counterpoint. As a member of the first generation of genuinely instrumental composers, he wrote not only the masses, motets and chansons that were customary during this period, but also a large number of works without text that were obviously created for instruments by virtue of their construction. As a result, his musical rhetoric went considerably farther than his otherwise congenial colleagues Josquin Desprez and Heinrich Isaac, and he composed instru¬mental works that were far ahead of his time.
