In this hour a new special CD is featured. Belgium ensemble Graindelavoix with their new CD ‘Cecus’, subtitled: ‘Colours, Blindness and Memorial, Alexander Agricola and his contemporaries’.
With lamentations by Pierre de la Rue, Alexander Agricola, Juan de Anchieta, Nicolas Champion, Josquin Desprez and Anonymous.
I. Mémorial.
Anonymous (reconstruction: Björn Schmelzer).
1. Romance de la muerte del muy esclarecido rey don Felipe.
Pierre de la Rue.
2. Plorer, gemir, crier / Requiem.
3. Absalon, fili mi.
II. Les larmes, les aveugles.
Alexander Agricola (1445-1506).
4. Fortuna desperata.
5. Si dedero sompnium oculis meis.
6. Je n’ay dueil que de vous.
Juan de Anchieta.
7. Musica quid defles.
Nicolas Champion.
8. De profundis clamavi.
Josquin Desprez.
9. Nymphes des bois, déploration sur la mort de Ockeghem.
Alexander Agricola.
10. Cecus non judicat de coloribus, secunda pars.
Graindelavoix led by Björn Schmelzer.
Label number: Glossa GCD P32105, 2010
Special thanks to Prelude Klassieke Muziek, Baarn.