Name: The Art of the Netherlands by David Munrow
Brand: David Munrow
SKU: 5099962849852
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David Munrow and his Early Music Consort of London are the fountainhead of the English historically informed performance practice movement and a prime example of their work is this classic 1975 recording, The Art of the Netherlands. Among the exceptional young performers who went on to stellar careers are countertenor James Bowman and tenors Martyn Hill and Rogers Covey-Crump, and Christopher Hogwood, freshly down from Oxford, sits at the organ. But the key figure here is Munrow, the youthful polymath who combined scholarship, musicianship, craftsmanship, and nearly endless enthusiasm in a singularly explosive blend. If a word like "explosive" seems unusual in context of early music that nevertheless was the effect these recordings had when they were originally issued. So fresh were Munrow's insights and so overwhelming his energy that these performances practically crackle. The discs are conveniently divided into one for secular songs and another of mass movements, so listeners can easily grasp the difference between the genres and modes of expression. Munrow and his forces do full justice to both, turning in lusty accounts of the songs and probing readings of the mass movements. Though later performers have refined and developed the historically informed performance practice movement, Munrow is essential to its understanding.

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The Art of the Netherlands

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Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 1

1. Scaramella va alla guerra (Villotta)

2. Allegez moy, doulce plaisant brunette (1996 Remastered Version): I - Original six-part chanson

3. Allegez moy, doulce plaisant brunette: : II - Lute duet version

4. El grillo e buon cantore (Frottola)

5. Donna di dentro della tua casa (quodlibet) (1976 Remastered Version)

6. De tous beins plaine (rondeau): I - Original three-part chanson

7. De tous biens plaine (rondeau) (1976 Remastered Version): II - Four part instrumental version (Josquin) with canon a 2

8. De tous biens plaine (rondeau): III - Three-part instrumental version I (Alexander Agricola? 1446 - 1506)

9. De tous biens plaine (rondeau): IV - Three-part instrumental version II (Agricola)

10. Du tout plongiet - Fors seulemnet I'attente (after Johannes Ockeghem) (rondeau) (1975 Remastered Version)

11. Mijn morken gaf mij een jonck wijff (quodlibet)

12. Ghy syt die werste boven al

13. Ein Frohlich wesen: I - Original three-part chanson

14. Ein Frohlich wesen: II - Keyboard solo version (ascr. Paul Hofhaimer 1459 - 1537)

15. Ein Frohlich wesen: III - Four-part chanson (Obrecht)

16. Prenez sur moi vostre exemple amoureux (canon a 3)

17. Ma bouche rit

18. Guillaume se va chaufer

19. Adieu mes amours: I - Original four-part chanson from Petrucci's "Harmonice musices odhecaton A" (Venice, 1501)

20. Adieu mes amours: II. Keyboard solo version

21. Fortuna desperata I - Original three-part chanson

22. Fortuna desperata: II - Six-part version (Agricola)

23. Fortuna desperata: III - Three-part instrumental version

Volume 2

1. Missa sine nomine: Kyrie

2. Missa 'Et ecce terrae motus': Gloria

3. Credo super 'De tous biens'

4. Missa 'Ave sanctissima Maria': Sanctus

5. Missa 'La bassadanza': Agnus Dei

6. Haec Deum caeli

7. O bone Jesu

8. De profundis a 5

9. Benedicta es caelorum regina (1976 Remastered Version)

10. Nesciens mater virgo virum

11. Inviolata integra et casta es Maria

12. Intemerata Dei mater

13. Laudemus nunc Dominum

14. Ave sanctissima Maria

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