Modern man drags along his beloved music on his iPod. But five hundred years ago, it is a bit more

Modern man drags along his beloved music on his iPod. But five hundred years ago, it is a bit more cumbersome to it. If you were rich and substantial, you let the music you like to hear together in book form. But you still had a choir or group of instrumentalists who need to make music. Performed at The Medici public trustee Codex is such a book. Pope Leo the Tenth, born Giovanni de 'Medici, left the production at the beginning of the sixteenth century. In 1518 he gave it as a wedding gift to his nephew Lorenzo de 'Medici, who with the French Princess Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne was married. The Medici Codex is one of the finest public trustee surviving bundles music manuscripts out there. It contains 53 motets of the greatest public trustee composers of that time. Pope Leo left who like music and often sing the papal chapel, which he had saved. Although public trustee no effort The best singers and instrumentalists of that time were in his service. Leo X was what is called a hedonistic pope. His pontificate lasted eight years, during which he the money that was left by his predecessor Julius II in the papal greenhouse so lavish that issued shortages arose, he caught by acting. Equally lavish public trustee in indulgences That he is heavily brought the name of the Roman Catholic Church into disrepute and it actually laid the foundation for the Reformation, he will not have to realize. During the countless precious hunting and gorging feasts The time is not particularly favorable about Leo the Spendthrift judged. But music lovers think there more qualified. Because thanks to Leo X, who had a highly developed musical public trustee taste and a great musical knowledge, is there for and around public trustee the papal court a large amount of beautiful music written at the beginning of the sixteenth century, many preserved in manuscripts and printed material remained. The Medici Codex is it perhaps the crown jewel. Cappella Pratensis, a Dutch choir that strives for the work of Josquin des Prez and other polyphonists Renaissance, has recorded a CD with a selection from the Medici Codex. On Vivat Leo! There are nine pieces from the Codex of five different composers, all of whom were among the very best in their time. Only two pieces of Andreas de Silva were not there, which in the case of his Gaude felix Florentia surprised, because this is an eleven minute long unlikely flattering praise of Leo the Spendthrift concerns. "His impressive of doing any regal power offset, as light dispels darkness (...) Long live Leo, we sing in unison, that he may live and prosper should reign over many years." The text may be the superlative of slijmballerij, the music is a stunning beauty. And led by eminent conductor and musicologist Joshua Rifkin (the man who first option to the choirs in Bach's St. Matthew Passion single to occupy in 1981 presented) does Cappella Pratensis all the music justice. Apart from the less famous Andreas de Silva, there are pieces on this CD, among others, Adrian Willaert, Jean Mouton and Josquin Des? Prez, all three very big names at that time. They all wrote brilliant music with eternal value. The most famous piece in the codex is Nymphes Josquin des bois, written in memory of his great predecessor Johannes Ockeghem. But the best part is surely Josquin's Miserere mei, Deus, in which the tenor voice no less than 21 times begs for mercy. Just by its size distinguishes Josquin's setting of Psalm 50 (fourteen minutes public trustee Cappella Pratensis) already motets of all of his contemporaries. This is a piece that an unsuspecting man can make to music from the Renaissance. Addicted Splendour CD. Buy. (ERIK Voermans) (Challenge Classics)