Vinders: Missa Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen & Missa Fors seulement - Sidney Sussex Choir, Cambridge; Andrew Lawrence-King & David Skinner - INV1012

Vinders: Missa Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen & Missa Fors seulement (2CDs)

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Total playing time [101:11]

The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Andrew Lawrence-King (harp & psaltery)
David Skinner (director)

Jheronimus Vinders (fl.1525/6) is best known for the oft-recorded lament on the death of Josquin Desprez (d.1521), O mors inevitabilis, which has led many to presume that he was a disciple or even a pupil of the great master.

Now that his surviving works have recently been published in a modern edition, we are better able to place him among his contemporaries. He belongs to a rather small group of Flemish musicians who form the link between the Josquin generation and that of the mid-sixteenth century, featuring composers such as Clemens non Papa and Crecquillon. He boasts a wonderfully imaginative ear with a preference for dark sonorities, and his music often surprises and delights.

This is the first recording devoted to a selection of Vinders’s works along with the polyphonic models that inspired them.

Album Booklet (PDF)

Tracklist

Disc 1
Anonymous with improvisation by Andrew Lawrence King
1. Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen

Benedictus Appenzeller (c.1480–c.1558)
2. Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen a5

Jheronimus Vinders (fl.1525–1526)
3.–7. Missa Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen

Matthaeus Pipelare (c.1450–c.1515)
8. Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen a3

Johannes Ghiselin-Verbonnet (fl.1491–1507)
9. Ghy syt die wertste boven al a4

Jheronimus Vinders
10. Salve regina super Ghy syt die wertste boven al

Anonymous with improvisation by Andrew Lawrence King
11. Pavan and Galliard super Ghy syt die wertste boven al

Disc 2
Antoine de Févin (c.1470 –c.1512)
1. Fors seulement la mort a3

Jheronimus Vinders
2.–6. Missa Fors seulement

Johannes Ghiselin-Verbonnet
7. Fors seulement l’atente que je meure a4

Matthaeus Pipelare
8. Fors seulement l’atente que je meure a4

Under David Skinner’s directorship they shape lines with elegance and purpose, allowing Vinders’s complex textures to come across very legibly. That a choir two-dozen strong sounds so focused is remarkable. More impressive still for such young singers, they convey the architecture of these movements very persuasively.

- Gramophone - Editor's Choice

'Under David Skinner’s directorship they shape lines with elegance and purpose, allowing Vinders’s complex textures to come across very legibly. That a choir two-dozen strong sounds so focused is remarkable. More impressive still for such young singers, they convey the architecture of these movements very persuasively.'
Gramophone - Editor's Choice

'[...] this beautiful double album by the choir of Sidney Sussex, Cambridge puts Vinders alongside Flemish contemporaries [...] The Choir of Sidney Sussex sound lovely, bathing in the overlapping vocal entries. [...] The singing is understated and direct under David Skinner’s direction, and Andrew Lawrence-King’s psaltery and harp offer an occasional different colouration.'
The Arts Desk

Credits
© 2023 Resonus Limited
Ⓟ 2023 Resonus Limited
Catalogue No. INV1012
Producer, engineer & editor: Adam Binks
EAN: 5060262793558
Cover image: The Seven Deadly Sins by Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450–1516)
Release date: 23 June 2023