Cecus: Alexander Agricola and his contemporaries: Recorded in Duisburg (Belgium) in February 2010

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[The Agricola is] the first recording of a piece that looks slight on the page but is moving enough in performance...it's good of Graindelavoix to tackle some fo the famous pieces of the time... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 More…

Release Date: 18th Oct 2010
Catalogue No: GCDP32105
Label: Glossa
Series: Platinum
Length: 78 minutes

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trad.: Romance de la muerte del muy esclarecido rey don Felipe (based on Romance on the Death of Don Juan de Aragon y Castilla in 1497) [1506] (arr. B. Schmelzer)

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Romance de la muerte del muy esclarecido rey don Felipe (on Romance on the Death of Don Juan de Aragon y Castilla in 1497) [1506] (arr. B. Schmelzer)

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Rue, P: Plores, genices, cries - Requiem

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Rue, P: Delicta juventutis

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Rue, P: Absalom, fili mi

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Rue, P: Quis dabit pacem: Doleo super te

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Agricola, A: Cecus non judicat de coloribus

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Cecus non judicat de coloribus: Part I

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Agricola, A: Fortuna desperata (after Busnoys or Felice)

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Agricola, A: Si dedero

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Agricola, A: L'heure est venue

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Agricola, A: Je n'ay deuil

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Anchieta: Musica quid defles

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Champion, N: De profundis clamavi

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Josquin: Nymphes Des Bois

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Cecus non judicat de coloribus

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Cecus non judicat de coloribus: Part II

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To complete a triptych of recordings presenting an alternative view of performance practice from across a century of Franco-Flemish polyphony, Björn Schmelzer and Graindelavoix now turn their attention to music by Alexander Agricola and his contemporaries in Cecus.

Following on from their two earlier albums, Joye and La Magdalene, Cecus concerns itself with music associated with blind players (notably two fiddlers from Bruges) and memory and commemoration (laments on the deaths of Agricola and Johannes Ockeghem) coming from the chapel of Philippe le Beau and Juana of Castile.

Alexander Agricola’s own musical world – and especially Cecus non judicat de coloribus [The Blind Do Not Distinguish Colours] – crosses the border between theory and practice, between flamboyant experience and rational construction and constantly evokes blindness in relation to memory and written or improvised music, but also in connection with those songs of mourning.

Graindelavoix’s new CD for Glossa promises polyphony in sharply-articulated, richly-coloured performances, provided with athletic vocal gestures by Schmelzer and his Antwerp-based ensemble of musicians from Spain, Estonia, the UK, France and Belgium.

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February 2011

[The Agricola is] the first recording of a piece that looks slight on the page but is moving enough in performance...it's good of Graindelavoix to tackle some fo the famous pieces of the time (Nymphes des bois and Absalon fili mi, whoever wrote it) along with some obscure ones.

Cecus: Alexander Agricola and his contemporaries

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