Johannes Ockeghem - Missa 'De plus en plus' - Orlando Consort (2010) {Brilliant Classics 94073 rec 1996}
Johannes Ockeghem - Missa 'De plus en plus' - Orlando Consort (2010) {Brilliant Classics 94073 rec 1996}
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© 1996, 2010 Deutsche Grammophon / Brilliant Classics | 94073
Classical / Medieval / Renaissance / Early Music / Sacred / Polyphony
Considering that he was one of the most celebrated composers in the 15th Century, we don’t seem to know a lot about Johannes Ockeghem; his exact birth-date, birth location and early training are all uncertain. He left behind a significant musical record and when he died in 1497 his death was marked by compositions from some of the greatest composers of the time.
Ockeghem’s Missa De plus en plus uses as its cantus firmus, the tenor part of Binchois’s rondeaux De plus en plus. The piece has some of the rhythmic density of some of Ockeghem’s early masses, but also seems to be performing an act of homage to Binchois. Ockeghem wrote a deploration on Binchois’s death in 1460, Mort, tu as navre de ton dart and this wonderful piece is the last item on this disc. Scholars tend to assume that the mass was written at about the same time as the deploration.
If we know little about Ockeghem the man, we probably know even less about performance practice in the 15th century. So there are various ways that you can approach the mass. The Orlando Consort perform it one voice to a part, with all men. As an alternative there are versions from Edward Wickham and the Clerkes Group, and Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars, both of which take a more choral approach.
The Orlando Consort’s approach works well in this music. There is an austerity to the sound of just four men which suits Ockeghem’s textures. In the denser passages the Orlando brings good crisp clarity to the lively rhythms. Everything is sung with a nice feel for Ockeghem’s long lines.
The voice ranges required for these parts are quite large and demanding, so that in the more choral-based versions there is a discreet mixing and matching of singers; the four men of the Orlando Consort do it all on their own. The results are simply impressive from a technical and stamina point of view and the benefits far out-weigh the hints of human fallibility which inevitably come with using just one voice to a part in this type of music.
The Orlando Consort’s interpretation is quite restrained. You could imagine a more demonstrative account of the music, but this ‘less is more’ approach works very well for them and I would happily listen to this disc repeatedly.
About the accompanying chansons I am less certain. Certainly including the chansons does give a neat over-view of Ockeghem’s career, but I don’t feel the Orlando Consort handle them well. They still seem to be in sacred mode, and I kept feeling that I would far rather have had a selection of contemporary motets - which is what the Clerkes Group does.
The CD booklet includes an informative essay, plus the text for the mass in Latin and English. There are no texts for the chansons, which would seem a significant omission. The CD was originally issued on DG and is now warmly welcome on the Brilliant Classics budget label.
Quite which recording of Ockeghem’s Missa de Plus en Plus you go for depends on your personal preferences. This is a superb recording of the mass and if you can live with the chansons, then I would go for it. You might not like the idea of just one voice to a part, in which case go for the Clerkes Group - where the coupling is a selection of motets - or The Tallis Scholars, where the coupling is another Ockeghem mass.
Performers:
Orlando Consort
Robert Harre-Jones, Matthew Venner - counter-tenors
Mark Dobell, Charles Daniles - tenors
Angus Smith, Donald Greig - basses
rec. 5-8 March 1996, St. Osdag Kirche Mandelsloh, Neustadt.
Track Listing
01 - Missa De plus en plus - Kyrie
02 - Missa De plus en plus - Gloria
03 - Missa De plus en plus - Credo
04 - Missa De plus en plus - Sanctus
05 - Missa De plus en plus - Agnus Dei
06 - Presque transi
07 - Prenez sur moi vostre exemple amoureux
08 - O rosa bella
09 - Aultre Venus estes sans faille
10 - S'elle m'amera
11 - Tant fuz gentement
12 - Mort tu as navre de ton dart
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Johannes Ockeghem - Missa 'De plus en plus' - Orlando Consort (2010) {Brilliant Classics 94073 rec 1996}
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