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Antoine Brumel. Missa Et ecce terrae motus.(Review)

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Ensemble Clement Janequin; Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse/ Dominique Visse. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901738, 2003.

As a pupil of Josquin Desprez and a prominent exponent of the dense and virtuosic style of choral writing associated with the Flemish school, Antoine Brumel is regularly included with such lowland masters as Jacob Obrecht, Jean Mouton, and Alexander Agricola. But Brumel was a Frenchman, a fact one might never guess based on a casual listening survey of his works; perhaps more interesting is the fact that his fame exceeded that of most of his contemporaries in the Flemish school both during his lifetime and after his death. Of his fifteen known Mass settings, the Mass Et ecce terrae motus is perhaps the most viscerally powerful and intellectually impressive. The work takes its cantus firmus from the opening notes of the ...

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