Le Maître de Fricassée: Secular music of Jean Japart

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The singing of mezzo Els Janssens-Vanmuster is expressive and committed. The recording is well-balanced and luminous. This may be slight and quirky, albeit charming, material from an obscure... — Classical Music, 25th February 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 14th Nov 2011
Catalogue No: CHR77353
Label: Christophorus
Length: 61 minutes

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L'homme arme [15th Century]

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Josquin: L'homme arme a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Japart: Il est de bonne heure ne / L'homme arme a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Obrecht: Tant que nostre argent dura a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Japart: Amours fait moult tant / Il est de bonne heure ne / Tant que nostre argent dura a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Japart: Tan bien mi son pensada a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Japart: Pour passer temps / Plus ne chasceray sans gans a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Japart: Questa se chiama a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Japart: Jay biens nori a 3

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Helas quel e a mon gre [Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale]

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Michael Feyfar (tenor)

Japart: Helas qu'il est a mon gre a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Japart: Fortuna d'un gran tempo (reconstructed by M. Form)

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Michael Form (recorder)

Josquin: Fortuna d'un gran tempo

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Japart: Fortuna d’un gran tempo

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Martini, Johannes: Fortuna d'un gran tempo a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Antonius De Vinea: Franc coeur, qu'as tu / Fortuna a 5

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Michael Form

Ghizeghem: De tous biens plaine

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Japart: De tous biens plaine a 4

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Michael Form

Japart: Je cuide se ce temps a 3

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Michael Form

Japart: Je cuide / De tous biens plaine a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Japart: Tmeskin was jonk a 3 and a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

J'ai pris amours a 3 [Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale]

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Japart: J'ay pris amours a 4

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Michael Form

J'ay pris amours a 4

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J'ay pris amours a 4

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Busnois: J'ay pris amours tout au rebours a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Japart: Amours, amours a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Japart: Nenciozza mia a 4

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Michael Form

Japart: Prestes le moy a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Japart: Vray dieu d'amours / Sancte Iohanes baptista / Ora pro nobis a 5

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Si congie prens

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Michael Feyfar (tenor)
Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Si congie prens

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Si congie prens

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Japart: Se congie pris a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Se congie pris a 4 [16th Century]

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

Josquin: Se congie prens a 4

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Flamboyants, Les
Michael Form

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Jean Japart remains one of the great unknowns of the Franco-Flemish school of the late 15th century, despite the fact that his music contains unexpected turns, daring harmony and bold movement structures. All that we know about Japart’s life is that he was employed for a certain period (1447-1480?) at the court in Ferrara. He must have been well-known during his lifetime as the great Josquin de Prez honours him in a personal motet lamenting his death. What is more, the famous Venetian printer Ottaviano Petrucci includes the extravagant total of 23 pieces (!) by Japart in his collections of music by the best-known composers in Europe of the time. Japart’s extraordinary contrapuntal skills are displayed in elaborate quodlibets (Fr. fricassées), in which several existing and mostly well-known melodies are skilfully combined, forming a musical Gordian knot. Another of his specialities is the enigma canon, a form which he carries to extremes in his eccentric constructions. In this recording, the ensemble Les Flamboyants directed by the recorder player Michael Form present (almost) the complete works of this master interspersed by a number of comparative works by other contemporary masters such as Josquin, Obrecht and Busnoys.

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Classical Music 25th February 2012

The singing of mezzo Els Janssens-Vanmuster is expressive and committed. The recording is well-balanced and luminous. This may be slight and quirky, albeit charming, material from an obscure figure, but I can't imagine another group managing to make much more of it.

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