Recording

De Orto and Josquin

Music in the Sistine Chapel around 1490

  • Sacred music by Renaissance composers living and working in Rome.
  • New interpretations of music by Josquin des Prez, including his famous Missa L’homme armé super voces musicales.
  • 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, these singer-composers 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.

Track list

CD 1

  1. 1 Nardi Maria pistici — Josquin des Prez 1:51
  2. 2 Missa La sol fa re mi: Crucifixus — Josquin des Prez 4:46
  3. 3 Missa La sol fa re mi: Agnus Dei — Josquin des Prez 4:54
  4. 4 Missa Fortuna desperata: Gloria — Josquin des Prez 6:08
  5. 5 Missa Fortuna desperata: Sanctus — Josquin des Prez 2:19
  6. 6 Missa Fortuna desperata: Agnus Dei I — Josquin des Prez 2:16
  7. 7 Dulcis amica Dei / Da pacem — Gaspar van Weerbeke 8:05
  8. 8 Ave regina celorum — Gaspar van Weerbeke 6:44
  9. 9 Missa Princesse d’amourettes: Agnus Dei — Gaspar van Weerbeke 6:12
  10. 10 Credo — anonymous 8:45
  11. 11 Lucis creator omnium — Marbrianus de Orto 4:18
  12. 12 Missa Ad fugam: Gloria — Marbrianus de Orto 5:16
  13. 13 Domine non secundum peccata — Bertrandus Vaqueras 6:04
  14. 14 Domine non secundum peccata — Josquin des Prez 7:09

CD 2

  1. 1 Il sera par vous / L’homme armé — Robert Morton 2:12
  2. 2 L’homme armé — anonymous 0:37
  3. 3 Missa L’homme armé: Kyrie — Marbrianus de Orto 4:02
  4. 4 Missa L’homme armé: Gloria — Marbrianus de Orto 5:52
  5. 5 Missa L’homme armé: Credo — Marbrianus de Orto 8:09
  6. 6 Missa L’homme armé: Sanctus — Marbrianus de Orto 6:48
  7. 7 Missa L’homme armé: Agnus Dei — Marbrianus de Orto 6:55
  8. 8 Ave mater gratie — Marbrianus de Orto 6:17
  9. 9 Factum est silentium — plainchant for St Michael 1:37
  10. 10 Missa L’homme armé super voces musicales: Kyrie — Josquin des Prez 3:56
  11. 11 Missa L’homme armé super voces musicales: Gloria — Josquin des Prez 6:03
  12. 12 Missa L’homme armé super voces musicales: Credo — Josquin des Prez 7:15
  13. 13 Missa L’homme armé super voces musicales: Sanctus — Josquin des Prez 8:07
  14. 14 Missa L’homme armé super voces musicales: Agnus Dei — Josquin des Prez 7:07
Matthew AndersonTenor
Carolann BuffSoprano
Mary GerbiSoprano
Bradford GleimBaritone · Artistic Advisor
Jason McStootsTenor
Marc MolomotTenor
John ProftBass
Jesse RodinDirector
Aaron SheehanTenor
Sumner ThompsonBass