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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Josquin (c1450/1455-1521)

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Composer of the Week: Josquin (c1450/1455-1521): Episode 4: Master of the Notes

Josquin (c1450/1455-1521)

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Episode 4: Master of the Notes

Master of the Notes

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Josquin (c1450/1455-1521), Master of the Notes

Donald Macleod goes in search of an elusive master of the Renaissance.

Choral director Jeremy Summerly and Donald Macleod go in search of that elusive master of the Renaissance era, Josquin des Prez. Today, Josquin as craftsman and innovator.

In the company of choral director Jeremy Summerly, Donald Macleod goes in search of that elusive Renaissance master, Josquin des Prez. Today, Josquin as craftsman and innovator.

It was no less than Martin Luther, architect of the Protestant Reformation, who dubbed his older contemporary Josquin Desprez "master of the notes, which must do as he wishes, while other composers must follow what the notes dictate". Nowhere is this mastery more apparent than in Josquin's Missa L'homme armé sexti toni, whose calm surface belies the fearsome complexity of its inner contrapuntal workings.

Ave Maria ... virgo serena
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips, director

Virgo prudentissima; Virgo salutiferi 
The Choir of New College, Oxford
Edward Higginbottom, director

Ave nobilissima creatura
La Chapelle Royale
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor

Salve regina (a5)
Chanticleer

L'homme armé; Missa L'homme armé sexti toni (Agnus Dei)
Oxford Camerata
Jeremy Summerly, director

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Donald Macleod explores the life and works of French Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez

Donald Macleod explores the life and works of French Renaissance composer, Josquin des Prez.

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