Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495 – c. 1560) - Motets II - Beauty Farm (2017) {Fra Bernardo Official Digital Download FB 1612457}

The second Gombert project with seventeen of his masterpieces, the motets, some of them being first recorded here. The best description of Gombert’s motets was written by Hermann Finck more than four centuries ago, in 1556: For he avoids pauses, and his work is rich with full harmonies and imitative counterpoint.

Beauty farm founded 2014 by Markus Muntean and Bernhard Trebuch is a vocal group focused to the Franco-Flemish polyphony of the renaissance. The international ensemble is based in the carthusian monastery at Mauerbach (Austria). The singers are members of well known ensembles like «Capilla flamenca», «Huelgas Ensemble», «Vox Luminis», «Collegium Vocale Gent» and «Graindelavoix». Beauty Farm exclusively records for frabernardo.

The vocal ensemble Beauty Farm was founded in 2014 and is made up of members of top international ensembles such as the Huelgas Ensemble, Vox Luminis, Collegium Vocale Gent or Graindelavoix. The singers do not intend a homogeneous beautiful sound in their interpretations, but a colorful sound rather through characteristic drawing of the individual voices. Their second album is also dedicated to motets by Nicolas Gombert, a grand master of the Franco-Flemish polyphony. They have selected seventeen of his masterpieces, some of which are receiving their first recording here. Hermann Finck described this music perfectly in 1556 when he said “He avoids pauses, and his work is rich with full harmonies and imitative counterpoint.”

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Personnel:
beauty farm
Bart Uvyn [countertenor]
Adriaan De Koster [tenor]
Florian Schmitt [tenor]
Hannes Wagner [tenor]
Christoph Drescher [bariton]
Joachim Höchbauer [bass]

tracklist:
01. Beatus vir qui non abiit
02. Ave Maria
03. Pater noster
04. Media vita in morte sumus
05. Ego flos campi
06. Respice Domine
07. Hodie nata est virgo Maria
08. O Domine Jesu Christe
09. Suscipe verbum virgo Maria
10. In te Domine speravi - Educes me
11. Patefactae sunt januae caeli
12. Hortus conclusus es Dei genitrix
13. Ego sum qui sum
14. O rex gloriae
15. Ne reminiscaris Domine
16. Da pacem Domine
17. Conceptio tua Dei genitrix



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Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495 – c. ...do Limited Edition FB 1504211}