Ave Maria : works by Allegri, Desprez, Bencini, Du Caurroy, Escobedo A sei voci, Bernard Fabre-Garrus
"After ten years of collaboration with naïve [astrée], I have decided to assemble on a single CD a collection of excerpts from the recordings that have punctuated my existence. For the musicians and listeners who have been following our career from the beginning, here is an excellent way of reviving our common memories. For those who have joined us more recently, perhaps even for the first time as they listen to this CD, it is an opportunity to get to know us better. What I have done here is to collect the most important settings of 'Ave Maria' and 'Agnus Dei' we have recorded since 1993. Written by such composers as Josquin Desprez, Allegri, and Bencini, they are mostly taken from the Franco-Flemish Renaissance and Italian Baroque repertoires, which are my preferred areas of musical research. I invite you, as you listen to this CD, to a journey in space and time that begins in fifteenth-century Flanders and ends in Rome around 1750. I hope, in all humility and simplicity, that these passages from the liturgy, whether a cappella, with continuo, or accompanied by an orchestra of period instruments, will delight all the music-lovers who hear it." Bernard Fabre-Garrus from the liner notes
"After ten years of collaboration with naïve [astrée], I have decided to assemble on a single CD a collection of excerpts from the recordings that have punctuated my existence. For the musicians and listeners who have been following our career from the beginning, here is an excellent way of reviving our common memories. For those who have joined us more recently, perhaps even for the first time as they listen to this CD, it is an opportunity to get to know us better. What I have done here is to collect the most important settings of 'Ave Maria' and 'Agnus Dei' we have recorded since 1993. Written by such composers as Josquin Desprez, Allegri, and Bencini, they are mostly taken from the Franco-Flemish Renaissance and Italian Baroque repertoires, which are my preferred areas of musical research. I invite you, as you listen to this CD, to a journey in space and time that begins in fifteenth-century Flanders and ends in Rome around 1750. I hope, in all humility and simplicity, that these passages from the liturgy, whether a cappella, with continuo, or accompanied by an orchestra of period instruments, will delight all the music-lovers who hear it."
Bernard Fabre-Garrus
from the liner notes
Ref. E8892
"masterpieces, masterfully interpreted (.) the pick of the year" — Gramophone "un feu intérieur couve ici, qu'attise une vibrante touche d'humanité" — Diapason
"masterpieces, masterfully interpreted (.) the pick of the year" — Gramophone
"un feu intérieur couve ici, qu'attise une vibrante touche d'humanité" — Diapason
CD 1 - 66:09
Pietro-Paolo Bencini 1 Ave Maria 6:19
Bernard Fabre-Garrus - choral conductor A sei voci
Charles d'Helfer 2 Agnus dei - requiem - messe de funérailles des ducs de Lorraine: Agnus dei 3:06
Josquin Desprez 3 Agnus dei - missa pange lingua: Agnus dei 7:00
Josquin Desprez 4 Agnus dei - missa gaudeamus: Agnus dei 5:20
Josquin Desprez 5 Ave Maria 4:32
Bartholomeo de Escobedo 6 Agnus dei - missa philippus rex hispaniae: Agnus dei 3:14
Josquin Desprez 7 Agnus dei - missa l'homme armé super voces musicales: Agnus dei 8:08
Josquin Desprez 8 Agnus dei - missa l'homme armé sexti toni: Agnus dei 6:52
Josquin Desprez 9 Agnus dei - missa de beata virgine: Agnus dei 4:55
Josquin Desprez 10 Agnus dei - missa ave maris stella: Agnus dei 4:06
Francisco Guerrero 11 Ave Maria 2:58
Gregorio Allegri 12 Agnus dei missa vidi turbam magnam: Agnus dei 3:12
Josquin Desprez 13 Agnus dei - missa hercules dux ferrariae: Agnus dei 6:27
