De Orto and Josquin: Music in the Sistine Chapel around 1490

Released: November, 2012 (double album)

Features sacred music by Renaissance composers living and working in Rome
Offers new interpretations of music by Josquin des Prez, including his famous Missa L’homme armé super voces musicales
Presents premiere recordings of works by Marbrianus de Orto, Gaspar van Weerbeke, and other scandalously understudied late fifteenth-century singer-composers employed in the newly built chapel of Pope Sixtus IV. In a space that overlooked frescoes by Botticelli and Perugino, they gathered around enormous choirbooks to sing one another’s masses, motets, and hymns. Cut Circle’s recording aims to capture the soundscape of the Sistine Chapel as Josquin knew it.

Disc One

Nardi Maria pistici

Josquin des Prez

Missa La sol fa re mi, Crucifixus

Josquin

Missa La sol fa re mi, Agnus dei

Josquin

Missa Fortuna desperata, Gloria

Josquin

Missa Fortuna desperata, Sanctus

Josquin

Missa Fortuna desperata, Agnus dei I

Josquin

Dulcis amica dei/Da pacem domine

Gaspar van Weerbeke

Ave regina celorum

Gaspar

Missa Princesse d'amourettes

Gaspar

Credo

anonymous

Lucis creator optime

Marbrianus de Orto

Missa Ad fugam, Gloria

de Orto

Domine, non secundum peccata

Bertrandus Vaqueras

Domine, non secundum peccata

Josquin

Disc Two