Concerts from around the country, recorded by Concertzender (early music). An extra Christmas broadcast with the Christmasconcert of Cappella Pratensis: Kerst met Josquin in Ferrara.
On Sunday 18 December, Cappella Pratensis gave Christmas performance with polyphonic ‘rond de kribbe’ (around the manger) by Josquin Desprez. In this programme, ‘Kerst met Josquin in Ferrara”, Cappella Pratensis brings the music of Josquin Desprez, around Christmas celebrations in Ferrara. It’s a musical three-piece starting with the Annunciatie by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, going through Christmas night itself and the mystery of Jesus’ birth, up to the Feast of Circumcision on 1 January.
= In Annunciatione Beate Marie Virginis
Josquin Desprez (1450/55-1521) / Jean Mouton (ca. 1459-1522)
1. Missus est Gabriel angelus
Josquin Desprez
2. O virgo prudentissima
= Nativitas
Josquin Desprez
3. Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie – Gloria
4. Preter rerum seriem
= In Circumcisione Domini
Josquin Desprez
5. O admirable commercium (cyclus)
– O admirabile commercium
– Quando natus est
– Rubem quem viderat
– Germinavit radix Jesse
– Ecce Maria genuit
Cappella Pratensis:
Stratton Bull and Andrew Hallock – superius
Loir Leibovini and Pieter De Moor – alto
Peter de Laurentiis and José Pizarro-Alonso – tenor
Pieter Stas en Marc Busnel – bass
Recorded on 18 December 2106 in the Geerte church in Utrecht.
The concert is part of the Early Music Season.
Sound engineer: Theo van Soest
Production: Wijnand de Groot
