An educational programme featuring early music. On the trail of the Early Music Festival Utrecht 2018: composers at the court of Philip the Good.
The main theme of the festival was ‘the Burgundian lifestyle’ focusing on music performed at the courts of Philip the Bold, John the Fearless, Philip the Good and Charles the Bold.
Today we will play music for you from the composers at Philip the Good’s court. Philip the Good had a great love for music and he enriched the band with a string of prominent composers such as: Pierre de La Rue, Gaspar van Weerbeke, Alexander Agricola, Antoine de Divitis and others.
Anonymous (beginning of the 16th century)
1. Romance de la muerte del muy esclarecido rey don Felipe
Alexander Agricola (1446-1505)
2. L’eure est venue
Nicolas Champion (ca. 1475-1533)
3. De Profundus clamavi
Graindelavoix olv. Björn Schmelzer
(CD Cecus, Glossa GCD 321052010)
Antonius Divitis (ca. 1475-ca. 1530)
4. Per lignum
Capella Sancta Michaelis and Currende Consort conducted by Erik van Nevel
(CD Vlaamse Polyfonie: Ockeghem en Frankrijk, Eufoda 1168)
Pierre de la Rue (ca. 1452-1518)
5. Requiem:
– Introitus Requiem aeternam
– Kyrie
– Tractus Sicut cervus
– Offertorium Domine Jesu Christe
– Sanctus
– Agnus Dei
– Communio Lux aeterna
Cappella Pratensis conducted by Stratton Bull
(CD Cappella Pratensis – Ockeghem | De La Rue, Challenge Classics CC72541, 2012)
