Jean Richafort

Richafort: Requiem (Tributes to Josquin Desprez)

The King's Singers

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212032626

Catalog number: SIGCD 326
Releasedate: 01-03-13

Josquin Desprez is considered the greatest creator and innovator of musical composition during the Renaissance, and for some half a millennium his music has stood the test of time
The programme's centrepiece is Jean Richafort's Requiem mass (missa pro defunctis), a tribute that employs several of Josquin's compositional devices
The King's Singers once again demonstrate their versatility and trademark precisio
This new programme is devised by leading early-music scholar and conductor David Skinner

Few composers of any age have enjoyed the widespread admiration and unanimous praise of successive generations as Josquin Desprez. He is remembered as much for his own works as for his lasting influence on those of his contemporaries and students, demonstrated in many of the compositions in tribute of 'the master' featured in this programme. The programme's centrepiece is Jean Richafort's Requiem mass (missa pro defunctis), a tribute that employs several of Josquin's compositional devices.

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