O Rosa Bella: Mass by Gilles Joye and Chansons by Dunstable and Bedyngham

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Release Date: 26th Jul 2019
Catalogue No: 95529
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 61 minutes

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Dunstaple: O rosa bella, JD 54

Work length3:56

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Ensemble Dionea, Nova Alta

O rosa bella o dulz anima mia

Work length3:09

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Ensemble Dionea, Nova Alta

Joye, G: Missa Super O Rosa bella

Work length10:51

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Andrea Gavagnin (vocals), Jonatas Monteiro (vocals), Stefano Maffioletti (countertenor), Nicola di Filippo (countertenor), Matteo Zenatti (tenor), Enrico Maronese (tenor)
Ensemble Dionea, Nova Alta
Claudia Caffagni

Missa super, "O Rosa bella": Kyrie

Track length10:51

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Hert, A: O Rosa bella

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Ensemble Dionea, Nova Alta

Ockeghem: Alius discantus Super O Rosa bella

Work length2:10

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Ensemble Dionea, Nova Alta

Bedyngham: Gymel O Rosa bella o tu mi maria

Work length2:09

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Ensemble Dionea, Nova Alta

Missa super, "O Rosa bella"

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Missa super, "O Rosa bella": Gloria

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Missa super, "O Rosa bella": Credo

Track length9:12

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Dunstaple: O rosa bella

Work length1:59

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Bedyngham: O rosa bella, "Concordancie O rosa bella cum aliis tribus ut posuit bedingham et sine hiis non concordant"

Work length1:58

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Ensemble Dionea, Nova Alta

Missa super, "O Rosa bella"

Work length11:21

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Missa super, "O Rosa bella": Sanctus

Track length6:29

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Missa super, "O Rosa bella": Agnus Dei

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O rosa bella, "Concordancie O rosa bella cum aliis tribus ut posuit bedingham et sine hiis non concordant"

Work length2:14

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Gymel O Rosa Bella o tu mi Maria

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Fifteenth-century chansons and polyphony in stylish new performances by Italianbased early-music ensembles.

‘O Rosa Bella’ is the title of two popular 15th-century chansons, the earlier composed by Johannes Ciconia and the latter originally attributed to John Dunstable, but now to John Bedyngham.

The text is based on a poem written by Leonardo Giustiniani (1300-1446): 'O lovely rose, My sweet soul; Let me not die In courtly love.' More than 20 works were based on this popular theme by composers including Johannes Ockeghem, and a Mass attributed to Gilles Joye.

Born around 1420, in the Belgian town of Courtai, Joye worked as a singer and lived beyond his means. Having taken up a prestigious ecclesiastical post in Bruges, he was sent by the church fathers on a pilgrimage in order to atone for misdemeanous, but he continued to accumulate debts which compelled him to sell all his possessions; he died in penury.

The song which Joye took as the basis for his Mass circulated widely during the 15th century; by a curious coincidence, Rosabella was also the name of Joye’s lover with whom he lived openly (and imprudently).

The recording follows performance practice of the time by using only male voices doubled by instruments for the two Masses and mixed voices for the Chansons. The chosen instrumentarium includes shawm, slide trumpet, sackbut, cornetto, recorder, lute, gothic harp and psaltery: an authentic but richly coloured ensemble.

Although there are previous recordings of the Mass and the chansons, all the music recorded here has been newly transcribed from original sources by two of its performers, Min J. Kim and David Brutti.

The recording took place in the Umbrian church of San Francesco in Trevi, where the original organ survives, dating from 1508, and thus retaining a sound-world that resembles one known to the likes of Dunstable and Joye.

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