Flemish-born composer Adrian Willaert was the most highly regarded composer in Italy of the generation after Josquin Desprez, but even the innovations of the historical-performance movement have largely failed to bring his music to life. It seems either too mechanical, as in the five large antiphonal psalms that make up the heart of this recording, or too fussily dense, as in some of the other choral pieces. One technique that can work is to bring together smaller pieces into the framework of the large occasions for which ...
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Flemish-born composer Adrian Willaert was the most highly regarded composer in Italy of the generation after Josquin Desprez, but even the innovations of the historical-performance movement have largely failed to bring his music to life. It seems either too mechanical, as in the five large antiphonal psalms that make up the heart of this recording, or too fussily dense, as in some of the other choral pieces. One technique that can work is to bring together smaller pieces into the framework of the large occasions for which Willaert often wrote music, and that's what the Capilla Flamenca under Dirk Snellings does here. The Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers of the Blessed Virgin) offered here is not a work by Willaert, per se, but it sheds considerable light on his music and how it was used. The Vespers service as a musical event culminated in the great Vespers setting of 1610 by Claudio Monteverdi, but it was large in scale well before that, even if the music of several composers had to be brought...
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