Jacob Obrecht Chansons | Songs | Motets Capilla Flamenca - Dirk Snellings Piffaro - Joan Kimball & Robert Wiemken Eufoda 1361 (2005) Awards: Prix Choc, R10 Classica, Diapason5

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De't Vroede / the Sage
1 Sullen wij langhe in drucke moeten leven
2 Ave regina caelorum
3 Dall'Aquila: Recercar
4 Fors seulement l'attente que je meure
5 Instrumentaal - Tekstloos 3
6 Marion la doulce
7 Beata es, Maria
8 Instrumentaal - Tekstloos 1

't Zotte / the Fool
9 Weet ghij wat mijnder jongher herten deert
10 Se bien fait
11 Ic weinsche alle scoene vrauwen eere
12 Wat willen wij metten budel spelen
13 Waer sij di Han? Wie roupt ons daer?
14 Meiskin es u cutkin ru?
15 Rompeltier
16 Als al de weerelt in vruechden leeft

't Amoureuze / the Lover
17 Instrumentaal - Tekstloos 4
18 Laet u ghenoughen liever Johan
19 Anon., Antwerps Liederboek: Tandernaken al op den Rijn
20 Tandernaken al op den Rijn
21 Hans Neusidler: Tandernaken al op den Rijn
22 ? Magnificat
23 Ave maris stella

Performers: Marnix de Cat (countertenor), Jan Caals (tenor), Lieven Termont (baritone), Dirk Snellings (bass), Jan van Outryve (lute), Liam Fennelly (viol), Thomas Baeté (viol), Piet Stryckers (viol, hurdy-gurdy); Rotem Gilbert (recorder, shawm), Grant Herreid (lute), Greg Ingles (sackbut), Joan Kimball (recorder, shawm), Robert Wiemken (recorder, shawm, percussion), Tom Zajac (recorder, sackbut)

Playing time: 64'

Recording date: September 2004 (Leuven)

Unattributed pieces are by Obrecht.

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Jacob Obrecht
Chansons | Songs | Motets

Jacob Obrecht has for some time been a central figure for the Capilla Flamenca, unequalled as he was in effortlessly mastering all the genres of his time and also being the first composer to provide us with so many polyphonic settings of Flemish songs. The 500th anniversary of his death is thus an ideal chance to devote a CD recording to this Ghent polyphonist.

Obrecht’s work reveals how he, like almost every Franco-Flemish polyphonists, lived and worked in the borderlands between two major cultures, the French and the Germanic. The melancholy, delicate French style is heard in his French chansons, while the Flemish songs are playful and even racy. In his extensive sacred oeuvre, he made a significant contribution to the development of the polyphonic language in Europe.

Thanks to the first-rate work of a number of musicologists in compiling the New Obrecht Edition, we have been able to track down a number of song texts lost until recently. Capilla Flamenca is thus the first ensemble to reconstruct several of these Flemish songs in a vocal setting. Other songs have remained purely instrumental since only their title has been preserved and they closely match the strong sound-idiom of the loud wind instruments that Jacob Obrecht would certainly have known well, thanks to his father, the renowned trumpet player, Willem Obrecht.

The “town waits” ensemble Piffaro (USA) is the ideal partner for the Capilla Flamenca, giving you a chance to enjoy to the full the highly varied work of Jacob Obrecht, which continues to astonish some 500 years later.

-Capilla Flamenca (www.capilla.be)