Ratas del viejo Mundo

Ratas del viejo Mundo – Baston: Flemish and French Chansons (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 58:15 minutes | 2,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Ramée

Most likely belonging to the fourth generation of Flemish polyphonists — that of such musicians as Adrian Willaert, Nicolas Gombert, Clemens non Papa and Cipriano de Rore — Josquin (or Johannes?) Baston was one of the many mysterious figures in sixteenth-century music history. Nothing is known about when and where he was born or died, and much uncertainty exists even about his first name. Many of his compositions appeared in printed anthologies alongside those of some of the most important musicians of the first half of the sixteenth century, such as Josquin Desprez and Orlande de Lassus. For the famous printers Tielman Susato and Pierre Phalèse to have included Baston’s works among those of such luminaries of Flemish Renaissance polyphony, they must have considered him to be an excellent composer. Whether Josquin Baston stayed in his native area, or whether he was the same person as the Joannes Baston who was active in Vienna, Poland, and Scandinavia, will remain an open question. This recording of chansons and motets by Josquin Baston explores the fascinating world of the mid-sixteenth-century Flemish style through the output of a very important though largely forgotten composer.
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Ratas del viejo Mundo – Philippe De Monte: Madrigals and Chansons (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:57 minutes | 1001 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ramée

2021 marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Philippe de Monte. Time. This Flemish Renaissance master was undoubtedly one of the greatest composers of his generation. For 35 years he held the prestigious position of imperial court bandmaster, the first half of which was in Vienna and then in Prague. He composed more music than any other composer in the second half of the 16th century: about 800 secular and spiritual madrigals, 40 chansons, 40 masses, 250 motets and a handful of other spiritual works. His compositions have been published in all the major music centres of Europe and have been performed from Lisbon to Gdansk and from Naples to Dublin. Throughout his career he enjoyed the greatest appreciation of professional musical life. However, the attention he receives today in musicology and in connection with it in the general public is out of proportion to the great prestige he enjoyed during his lifetime. This selection of madrigals, motets and chansons would like to contribute to giving him the prestige he deserves.

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