Ensemble Gilles Binchois & Dominique Vellard - Timor Mortis (D'Argentil, Sermisy, Barra) (2024)

This program focuses on the Missa pro defunctis by the composer Charles d'Argentil. Recorded for the first time here, it is one of only a dozen musical settings of the liturgy of the dead written before 1550 to have survived to this day. Little-known today, Charles d'Argentil, who worked in the prestigious Papal Chapel in Rome, was a key figure in the French Renaissance, as well as in the establishment of musical settings of the Requiem for papal ceremonies. His setting sits alongside the three Lamentations du samedi saint by Claudin de Sermisy, composer to the French royal chapel and Jehan Barra's Salve Regina. The Gilles Binchois ensemble here sheds light on an all-too-often overlooked part of musical history, through the generation that directly followed Josquin des Prez. The art of these three composers bears witness to the high level of mastery attained by that productive and talented generation.

Tracklist
01. D'Argentil- Missa pro defunctis- I. Introit
02. D'Argentil- Missa pro defunctis- II. Kyrie
03. D'Argentil- Missa pro defunctis- III. Séquence
04. D'Argentil- Missa pro defunctis- IV. Pie Jesu
05. D'Argentil- Missa pro defunctis- V. Sanctus
06. D'Argentil- Missa pro defunctis- VI. Agnus Dei
07. D'Argentil- Missa pro defunctis- VII. Communion
08. D'Argentil- Missa pro defunctis- VIII. Répons
09. Sermisy- Lamentations de Jérémie pour le samedi saint- Lectio I
10. Sermisy- Lamentations de Jérémie pour le samedi saint- Lectio II
11. Sermisy- Lamentations de Jérémie pour le samedi saint- Lectio III
12. Barra- Salve Regina