David Stuart (bass)

The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice

Despres: Mittit ad virginem
Despres: Alma redemptoris mater / Ave regina caelorum
Despres: Huc Me Sydereo
Despres: Stabat mater a 6
Despres: O bone et dulcissime Jesu
Despres: Domine ne in furore
Despres: Usquequo, Domine, oblivisceris me
Despres: Homo quidam
Despres: Gloria de beata virgine
Despres: Sanctus de Passione

Biographical and musicological certainties may be in short supply in the life and work of Josquin, but there’s no gainsaying the magnificence of the music recorded here: a programme of shorter works, most in unusual guise, to celebrate his 500th anniversary.

"The ensemble’s sound is clean and ingenuous throughout: boyish sopranos and altos are balanced by fresh-voiced tenors and basses, intonation is nigh flawless, the recording limpid. Stephen Rice and his singers subtly capture the emotional and spiritual gamut of these works...Rice’s detailed liner notes, which include a summary of the scholarly debates surrounding the spurious works, wrap up this treasurable anniversary disc." - BBC Music Magazine, March 2021.