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L'homme Armé Antoine Busnois GCD P31906 L’Homme Armé New release information August 2009 Antoine Busnois (?) NOTES (ENG) NOTES (FRA) A notable manuscript from the late 15th century, Un manuscrit remarquable, de la fin du XVe siècle, housed today in Naples, contains a cycle of six conservé aujourd’hui à Naples, contient un cycle cantus firmus masses all based on the chanson de six messes dont le cantus firmus est, dans L’homme armé which can be regarded as a treatise chaque cas, la chanson L’homme armé : il s’agit on polyphonic composition as well as providing non seulement d’un véritable traité de composition even more examples of masses based on this polyphonique mais encore d’une source offrant ubiquitous theme. Whilst surviving virtually d’autres exemples de messes basées sur ce thème complete the Naples manuscript has alas been doté d’une évidente et formidable ubiquité. shorn of its rich illuminations, losing along the way Virtuellement complet, le manuscrit de Naples a the identity of the composer of this unparalleled malheureusement été dépouillé de ses riches masterpiece from the late 15th century, although enluminures, où figurait précisément le nom du some scholars are inclined to believe that it was compositeur : ce chef-d’œuvre unique de la fin du Antoine Busnois, a leading musical figure at the XVe siècle a donc provoqué un débat sur son Burgundian Court of duke Charles the Bold, but hypothétique auteur que certains érudits ont identifié L’Homme Armé whose compositional output remains little recorded. comme étant Antoine Busnois, l’un des musiciens les plus importants de la cour bourguignonne de Six masses attributed to Antoine Busnois Armed with their own artistic insights and detective Charles le Téméraire, et curieusement peu Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale work and an unfailing grasp of the musical language représenté dans la discographie. of the 15th century (witness their three discs of Cantica Symphonia music by Guillaume Dufay on Glossa and the more Ayant pour seules armes leur génie artistique, leur Giuseppe Maletto recent a capella Stella del nostro mar album) talent de détective et une assimilation infaillible Giuseppe Maletto and the musicians of Cantica du langage musical du XVe siècle (ce dont Laura Fabris, Francesca Cassinari, Symphonia unlock the enigma of this L’homme témoignent les trois disques Glossa dédiés à Lorenza Donadini, Maria Teresa Nesci, sopranos armé masses, unveiling a real treasure of an early Guillaume Dufay et leur plus récent album Stella Gianluca Ferrarini, Raffaele Giordani, Renaissance musical masterpiece. A full del nostro mar chanté a capella), Giuseppe Maletto Giuseppe Maletto, Fabio Furnari, tenors performance of the sixth Mass is interspersed with et les musiciens de Cantica Symphonia résolvent Marco Scavazza, Mauro Borgioni, baritones fragments – played instrumentally – from the l’énigme de ces messes de L’homme armé et David Yacus, Mauro Morini, sackbuts preceding five and complemented by a révèlent un véritable trésor musical du début de Guido Magnano, organ contemporary Magnificat setting. la Renaissance. Ils offrent une interprétation intégrale de la sixième Messe en y intercalant des Svetlana Fomina, Efix Puleo, fiddles fragments – interprétés instrumentalement – appartenant aux cinq autres ; un Magnificat Glossa Platinum contemporain des messes, et attribué à Busnois, 1 CD complète ce disque admirable. Programme NOTAS (ESP) NOTIZEN (DEU) 01 Magnificat [octavi toni] 02 L’homme, l’homme (instr., from Mass I) Un extraordinario manuscrito de los últimos años In einem bemerkenswerten Manuskript aus dem 03 Kyrie (Mass VI) del siglo XV, conservado hoy en Nápoles, contiene 15. Jahrhundert, das heute in Neapel aufbewahrt 04 L’homme armé (instr., from Mass II) un ciclo de seis misas que usan, todas ellas, la wird, befindet sich ein Zyklus von sechs Cantus- 05 Gloria (Mass VI) canción L’homme armé como cantus firmus. Puede firmus-Messen über die Chanson L’homme armé. 06 Doibt on doubter (instr., from Mass III) ser considerado como un tratado de composición Dieser Zyklus wirkt einerseits wie eine Abhandlung 07 Credo (Mass VI) polifónica y a la vez como una rica fuente de über die polyphone Kompositionstechnik, liefert 08 On a fait partout... (instr., from Mass IV) ejemplos de misas basadas en un tema dotado de aber andererseits weitere Beispiele für Messen, 09 Sanctus (Mass VI) asombrosa ubicuidad. Virtualmente completo, el die auf diesem allgegenwärtigen Thema beruhen. 10 D’un haubregon de fer (instr., from Mass V) manuscrito de Nápoles ha sido desgraciadamente Obwohl die neapolitanische Handschrift so gut wie 11 Agnus Dei (Mass VI) despojado de sus ricas páginas con iluminaciones, vollständig erhalten ist, wurde sie leider ihrer en las que se encontraba el nombre del compositor: prächtigen Illuminationen beraubt. Dabei ging auch esta obra maestra de la época ha provocado un die Identität des Komponisten dieses einzigartigen interesante debate sobre su autor, al que algunos Meisterwerks des späten 15. Jahrhunderts verloren, Production details eruditos han identificado con Antoine Busnois, uno obgleich einige Wissenschaftler davon ausgehen, de los músicos más importantes de la corte es habe sich um Antoine Busnois gehandelt, eine Total playing time 71:49 borgoñona del duque Carlos el Temerario, que sin führende Musikerpersönlichkeit am burgundischen Recorded at Chiesa del Colletto, Roletto (Italy), embargo cuenta con escasa representación Hof Karls des Kühnen, dessen Werke leider nicht in July and October 2008 discográfica. besonders häufig eingespielt werden. Engineered and produced by Giuseppe Maletto and Davide Ficco Armados con su genio artístico, su afán detectivesco Giuseppe Maletto und die Musiker des Ensembles Executive producer: Carlos Céster y una asimilación sin igual del lenguaje musical Cantica Symphonia lösen das Rätsel dieser L’homme- del siglo XV (algo que atestiguan sus tres CDs en armé-Messen mit ihren herausragenden Art direction: Valentín Iglesias Glossa dedicados a Guillaume Dufay y el más künstlerischen Fähigkeiten, mit detektivischer Arbeit Booklet essay: G. Magnano & G. Maletto reciente Stella del nostro mar, un álbum a capella), und mit ihrem zuverlässigen Verständnis für die Giuseppe Maletto y los músicos de Cantica Musiksprache des 15. Jahrhunderts (als Beleg hierfür English Français Italiano Deutsch Español Symphonia resuelven el enigma de estas misas können ihre drei Dufay-CDs bei Glossa und ihre de L’homme armé y revelan un verdadero tesoro vor Kurzem entstandene A-cappella-Aufnahme musical del primer Renacimiento. Ofrecen una Stella del nostro mar dienen). Dabei enthüllen sie interpretación integral de la Misa VI intercalando einen wahren Schatz, ein Meisterwerk der frühen fragmentos –interpretados con instrumentos– de Renaissancezeit. Bei der Gesamtaufnahme der las otras cinco, propuesta que complementan con sechsten Messe wurden zwischen den einzelnen un Magnificat coetáneo enteramente compuesto Sätzen instrumental gespielte Fragmente aus den en polifonía. anderen fünf Messen eingefügt. Vervollständigt wird die Aufnahme durch einen Magnificat-Satz, der zur gleichen Zeit wie die Messen entstanden ist. 8 424562 31906 6 www.glossamusic.com.
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