The singer and composer Josquin Desprez traversed his time like a diffident ghost, glimpsed here and there amid the splendor of the Renaissance. He is thought to have been born around 1450 in what is ...

Ave Maria Maria Cristina Kiehr, Soprano Jonatan Alvarado, Tenor Ariel Abramovich, Vihuela Mille regretz Maria Cristina Kiehr, Soprano Jonatan Alvarado, Tenor Ariel Abramovich, Vihuela Missa, 'Fortuna ...

To commemorate the quincentenary of Josquin’s death, Stile Antico opt for a relatively safe but generous programme: his most frequently recorded Mass, accompanied by some of the better-known Marian ...

Donald Macleod and Andrew Graham-Dixon build a picture of music and art in Josquin's time The humanist Cosimo Bartoli described Josquin as the Michelangelo of Music. A master of polyphonic choral ...

The Tallis Scholars' association with Josquin des Prés (c 1450-1521), whose identity remains mysterious despite exhaustive scholarly digging, dates back to the late 80s when their Pange lingua disc ...

The mass was the first big form in Western music. The fifteenth-century theorist and composer Johannes Tinctoris called it the cantus magnus, or “great song.” In its standard structure, it consisted ...

All Performances of Josquin des Prez: Motet 'Ave Maria...virgo serena' (a 6) at BBC Music ...