Ensemble Gilles Binchois & Dominique Vellard - Timor Mortis (D'Argentil, Sermisy, Barra) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 59:15 minutes | 1,02 GB
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Evidence Classics, Official Digital Download
This program focuses on the Missa pro defunctis by the composer Charles d'Argentil. Recorded for the first time here, it is one of only a dozen musical settings of the liturgy of the dead written before 1550 to have survived to this day. Little-known today, Charles d'Argentil, who worked in the prestigious Papal Chapel in Rome, was a key figure in the French Renaissance, as well as in the establishment of musical settings of the Requiem for papal ceremonies.