Cappella Pratensis
Gaude Virgo! A Renaissance brotherhood celebrates the Virgin Mary - the Den Bosch Choirbooks vol. 1
- Type SACD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917287721
- Catalog number CC 72877
- Release date 14 May 2021
About the album
Music clearly fascinated the great Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516); his sketches and paintings are peppered with closely observed depictions of music-making and musical instruments. Bosch, a native of ’s-Hertogenbosch in the Duchy of Brabant, was a life-long brother of the city’s Brotherhood of Our Illustrious Lady, a large and prestigious organization for which sacred music was an essential and highly-valued part of its devotional life. Every Wednesday Bosch could gather with his Confraternity brothers in their opulent chapel in the church of St. John the Evangelist to celebrate a votive Mass in honour of the Blessed Virgin. This recording aims to capture a sense of the devotional soundscape that Bosch experienced throughout his life as a member of this music-loving Marian brotherhood. Instead of the frightening cacophony conjured by the artist’s vision of Hell, we encounter here the joy and serenity of the weekly Marian votive Mass liturgy. We have chosen the Missa Cum jocunditate by Pierre de la Rue (c.1452-1518), who was not only the most renowned composer of the Habsburg-Burgundian court but also an external member of the brotherhood from the early 1490s until his death in 1518. Indeed, La Rue may well have had occasion to meet Bosch during these years. Cappella Pratensis sings from the original notation, reading from scale copies of the confraternity’s manuscripts of plainsong and polyphony, and adopts the Brabant pronunciation of Latin those singers surely employed. They also read together from one large music book, like the men portrayed in the Singers in the Egg sketch attributed to Bosch
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11Introitus Salve Sancta Parens
05:06 -
12Missa Cum jocunditate Kyrie
03:04 -
13Missa Cum jocunditate Gloria
05:02 -
14Graduale Benedicta et venerabilis es
01:27 -
15Alleluia Ave Maria
02:33 -
16Sequentia Verbum bonum et suave
06:28 -
17Missa Cum jocunditate Credo
07:12 -
18O salutaris hostia
01:33 -
19Offertorium motet Sub tuum presidium
02:41 -
110Prefatio
02:58 -
111Missa Cum jocunditate Sanctus with Elevation motet - O salutaris hostia
07:57 -
112Pater noster
02:30 -
113Missa Cum jocunditate Agnus Dei
05:13 -
114Communio Beata viscera
01:09 -
115Cum jocunditate
01:46 -
116Motet Gaude Virgo
07:39
Robbert Muuse & Misha van Weers and Cappella Pratensis in Vrije Geluiden
09-05-2012
Robbert Muuse & Micha van Weers and Cappella Pratensis played in Vrije Geluiden last Sunday! A wonderful performance of both the artists.The show will be rebroadcasted on Saturday 12th, from 9.00 hrs on Nederland 1.You can win a CD! Leave a comment on the Facebookmessage of Vrije Geluiden about what you thought about the performance and win!