Josquin: De tous biens plaine | Voices of Music, renaissance recorders

Josquin's setting of "De tous biens plaine" from Petrucci's Motetti A, performed on renaissance recorders by Voices of Music. Filmed as part of the Voices of Music award winning "Leonardo da Vinci: A Musical Odyssey" program; full program here • Leonardo da Vinci: A Musical Odyssey. Musi...
At least twenty-eight settings of the immensely popular chanson "De tous biens plaine" come down to us; this version was printed by Petrucci in 1502. The earliest setting is most likely by
Hayne van Ghizeghem. This video is of Josquin's version, published as a just a treble and bass, and Josquin brilliantly adds a tenor part in a canon at the fifth one note delayed from the bass entrance. Thus the tenor sounds the last note at the very end one note later than the outside parts, supplying the fifth of the final chord.
The unique sound of these recorders is from the use of a matched set or consort, using similar woods, voicing and construction for all the instruments in the set, all made by the same builder. The matched consort sound, whether for recorders or viols, was the renaissance ideal sound.

Musicians (left to right)
Saskia Coolen, Hanneke van Proosdij & Andrew Levy.
Matched consort of renaissance recorders by Peter van der Poel
Produced by David Tayler & Hanneke van Proosdij
Post production: David Tayler & Andrew Levy
Audio mastering, video cutting and final 4K color and render: David Tayler
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