Cappella Pratensis

Cappella Pratensis - Apostola apostolorum (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Cappella Pratensis - Apostola apostolorum (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 76:51 minutes | 743 MB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

The relatively rare Masses that celebrate saints other than the Virgin Mary were usually composed in response to an individual’s or an institution’s particular devotional interest. T
Stratton Bull, Cappella Pratensis - Jacob Obrecht: Missa Maria zart (2023)

Stratton Bull, Cappella Pratensis - Jacob Obrecht: Missa Maria zart (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 324 Mb | Total time: 64:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Challenge Records | # CC72933 | Recorded: 2022

Jacob Obrecht’s Missa Maria zart is an extraordinary work, both literally, as probably the longest extant Mass of the Renaissance, taking an hour to perform, and in the more general meaning of the word. It is recognised as one of the most ambitious artistic creations of its time; some have claimed that it defies description. The director of Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull mentioned his interest in the complexities of Renaissance mensural notation and the difficulties that modern-day ensembles sometimes experience in interpreting it. Although several recordings of this Mass already existed, few if any had succeeded in doing justice to its subtle system of mensuration signs and use of notation generally.
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull - Josquin Desprez: Missa Ave Maris Stella (2014)

Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull - Josquin Desprez: Missa Ave Maris Stella (2014)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 60:16 | 267 MB
Genre: Classical, Sacred | Label: Challenge | Catalog: CC 72632

The Missa Ave Maris Stella, with its lyrically reverential mood and long duo and trio passages, is among Josquin Desprez's most popular masses, and the listener can choose from among recordings by top Renaissance a cappella vocal groups. This one by the Netherlands ensemble Cappella Pratensis presents itself as hyperauthentic. Backed by a booklet essay from Josquin specialist Jennifer Bloxam, the group purports to re-create the practices, discourse, and atmosphere that would have attended a performance of the mass in the papal chapel around the year 1500.
Cappella Pratensis & Stratton Bull - Missa Maria Zart (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Cappella Pratensis & Stratton Bull - Missa Maria Zart (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 64:52 minutes | 619 MB
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Challenge Classics, Official Digital Download

Jacob Obrecht’s Missa Maria zart is an extraordinary work, both literally, as probably the longest extant Mass of the Renaissance, taking an hour to perform, and in the more general meaning of the word. It is recognised as one of the most ambitious artistic creations of its time; some have claimed that it defies description. The director of Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull mentioned his interest in the complexities of Renaissance mensural notation and the difficulties that modern-day ensembles sometimes experience in interpreting it.

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Cappella Pratensis & Stratton Bull - Missa Maria Zart (2023)

Cappella Pratensis & Stratton Bull - Missa Maria Zart (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 290 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 Mb | 01:04:52
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Challenge Classics

Jacob Obrecht’s Missa Maria zart is an extraordinary work, both literally, as probably the longest extant Mass of the Renaissance, taking an hour to perform, and in the more general meaning of the word. It is recognised as one of the most ambitious artistic creations of its time; some have claimed that it defies description. The director of Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull mentioned his interest in the complexities of Renaissance mensural notation and the difficulties that modern-day ensembles sometimes experience in interpreting it. Although several recordings of this Mass already existed, few if any had succeeded in doing justice to its subtle system of mensuration signs and use of notation generally. A symposium was held in 2018 and the resulting performance duly took place, but plans for a recording were postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This had the welcome if unintended consequence of permitting several other live performances before the recording sessions in September 2022: the interpretation that Cappella Pratensis commits to disc is well ‘lived in’.
Cappella Pratensis, Rebecca Stewart - Johannes Ockeghem: Missa Mi-mi (2018)

Cappella Pratensis, Rebecca Stewart - Johannes Ockeghem: Missa Mi-mi (2018)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 55:25 | 250 MB
Genre: Classical, Sacred | Label: Ricercar | Catalog: RIC 131

All gathered around a single music stand, the Cappella Pratensis sings from facsimiles of 15th-century manuscripts, adding plainchant between the movements of a Mass, using the pronunciation of Latin particular to the Low Countries in the 15th century–all in an effort to get as close as possible to the sound composers such as Josquin and Ockeghem intended. On this record, Rebecca Stewart and her singers bring their unique approach to Ockeghem's famously somber Missa Mi-mi–with extraordinary results. The Cappella doesn't have the robust sound or sense of momentum the Clerks' Group brings to this Mass; rather, their performance has a gentleness and an extraordinary stillness about it that feel genuinely devout.
Stratton Bull, Cappella Pratensis - The Den Bosch Choirbooks, Vol.2: Ezekiel's Eagle (2021)

Stratton Bull, Cappella Pratensis - The Den Bosch Choirbooks, Vol.2: Ezekiel's Eagle - A Renaissance Brotherhood celebrates St John the Evangelist (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 299 Mb | Total time: 60:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Challenge Records | # CC72878 | Recorded: 2020

At the dawn of the Renaissance the southern Dutch city of ’s-Hertogenbosch, with its abundance of churches and monasteries, was also referred to as “Little Rome”. Central to this religious scene was the Brotherhood of Our Illustrious Lady (Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap), founded in 1318. This devotional organization, which counted among its members the famous painter Hieronymus Bosch, invested considerably in recruiting and employing the best singers and organists for its chapel, which performed a wide variety of polyphonic music. No fewer than nine choirbooks with this repertoire are still preserved by the confraternity.
Cappella Pratensis and Stratton Bull - Apostola apostolorum (2022)

Cappella Pratensis and Stratton Bull - Apostola apostolorum (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:16:51 | 343 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Cappella Pratensis

The relatively rare Masses that celebrate saints other than the Virgin Mary were usually composed in response to an individual’s or an institution’s particular devotional interest. There is good reason to believe that Nicolas Champion composed his Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena expressly for Margaret of Austria, whose devotion to Mary Magdalene is well known. Champion (c. 1475-1533) worked for the Habsburg-Burgundian chapel from 1501 to 1524; this Mass was probably written between 1507 and 1515.
Pierre de la Rue - Missa Cum Jocunditate & Visions of Joy - Cappella Pratensis (2016) {Challenge Records Digital Downloads}

Pierre de la Rue - Missa Cum Jocunditate & Visions of Joy - Cappella Pratensis (2016) {Challenge Records Digital Downloads}
FLAC (tracks) - 44kHz/16 bit - Official Digital Download (qobuz.com) -> 300 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 154 Mb | Artwork | 5% repair rar
© 2016 Challenge Records | CC 72710
Classical / Early Music / Choral / Renaissance

Music clearly fascinated the great Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516); his sketches and paintings are peppered with closely observed depictions of music-making and musical instruments. Bosch, a native of ’s-Hertogenbosch in the Duchy of Brabant, was a life-long brother of the city’s Brotherhood of Our Illustrious Lady, a large and prestigious organization for which sacred music was an essential and highly-valued part of its devotional life. Every Wednesday Bosch could gather with his Confraternity brothers in their opulent chapel in the church of St. John the Evangelist to celebrate a votive Mass in honour of the Blessed Virgin.
Nationaal Vrouwen Jeugdkoor, Nederlands Kamerkoor & Cappella Pratensis - Missa Unitatis (2017)

Nationaal Vrouwen Jeugdkoor, Nederlands Kamerkoor & Cappella Pratensis - Missa Unitatis
Classical, Choral | WEB FLAC (tracks) & front cover | 63:58 min | 255 MB
Label: Challenge Classics | Tracks: 16 | Rls.date: 2017

This program around the Missa Unitatis represents a meeting of many different musical travellers. Shortly after making its home in the southern Dutch city of ’s-Hertogenbosch in 2006, Cappella Pratensis renewed its acquaintance with an organisation that has been travelling through some 700 years of history, the Confraternity of the Illustrious Lady. To celebrate the Year of Religious Heritage in 2008, the Confraternity commissioned a work by the British composer Antony Pitts.