Josquin Desprez: Stabat Mater; Marian Motets

Touching Marian devotion

GLOSSA is also celebrating the 500th anniversary of the death of the great Flemish Renaissance composer Josquin Desprez with a special production: the renowned Italian ensemble Cantica Symphonia under Giuseppe Maletto has chosen to use a special technique for its recording of Josquin’s motets of Mary (including the Stabat mater and the enchantingly beautiful Ave Maria … virgo serena), the renowned Italian ensemble Cantica Symphonia under Giuseppe Maletto implements the latest performance practice in this music. To lighten the atmosphere, instrumental versions of the composer’s secular chansons are interspersed, played by an ensemble of organ, harp, fiddle, slide trumpet and trombone, which in part also joins the vocal parts in the sacred works.