A REQUIEM FOR ALL SOULS | Cappella Pratensis

“Has it then fallen silent, the golden voice of Ockeghem?” So laments the humanist Desiderius Erasmus, mourning the passing of the great composer and singer Johannes Ockeghem.

With this program, the Gramophone Award-winning ensemble Cappella Pratensis presents two of the earliest surviving polyphonic settings of the Mass for the Dead: the first by Ockeghem, whose dark and sinuous counterpoint seems almost otherworldly; and the second, a brighter setting by the younger Pierre de la Rue.

Evoking the sights and sounds of medieval music, the eight singers of Cappella Pratensis perform huddled around a single choirbook, conjuring an intense and intimate soundworld.

“This recording might change how you hear and think about Renaissance polyphony”
Gramophone Magazine (2021)

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