Ymaginacions La Quintina & Jérémie Couleau

• Anonymous: Mass upon John Dunstable's square:
• 1 Anonymous: Mass upon John Dunstable's square: Nowel syng we bothe al and som 02:58
• Nicholas Ludford (c. 1485 - 1557): Mass upon John Dunstable's square:
• 2 Ludford: Mass upon John Dunstable's square: Kyrie 05:06
• 3 Ludford: Mass upon John Dunstable's square: Gloria 06:10
• 4 Ludford: Mass upon John Dunstable's square: Alleluya. Post partum Virgo 02:53
• 5 Ludford: Mass upon John Dunstable's square: Sequentia. Post partum Virgo 04:48
• 6 Ludford: Mass upon John Dunstable's square: Credo 08:57
• 7 Ludford: Mass upon John Dunstable's square: Glose sur Afferentur regi virgines 06:45
• William Whitbroke
• 8 Ludford: Mass upon John Dunstable's square: Sanctus 07:01
• 9 Ludford: Mass upon John Dunstable's square: Agnus dei 04:56
• William Whitbroke (c. 1500 - 1569): Mass upon John Dunstable's square:
• 10 Whitbroke: Mass upon John Dunstable's square: Ite missa est 01:25
• Nicholas Ludford: Mass upon John Dunstable's square:
• 11 Ludford: Mass upon John Dunstable's square: Glose sur Bryd one brere 06:09
• Anonymous: Mass upon John Dunstable's square:
• 12 Anonymous: Mass upon John Dunstable's square: An Hevenly Songe 03:59
• Total Runtime 01:01:07

Info for Ymaginacions

This new album is conceived as a mirror of our previous disc. Our aim is not so much to recreate a religious office but, rather, a concert programme in which the innovations of John Dunstable, Nicholas Ludford and William Whitbroke converse with our ymaginacions.

We hope, with our ensemble La Quintina, to have modestly contributed to the discovery of a little-known corpus of English renaissance music. This, our second disc, is the fruit of a decade-long immersion in the style of Nicholas Ludford, an immersion that was necessary in order to reconstruct its counterpoints, however artistically challenging. We have the impression of having mastered the fertile square and hope that other ensembles will continue this work on the other Lady Masses by this composer. There is so much to be done! La Quintina acknowledges all those who have closely contributed to our elaboration of this English epic: our friends in the Ensemble Scandicus, Gérard Geay for his work on the musica ficta in the Missa Feria II, and Paul Willenbrock for his astute advice on the pronunciation of early English and English Latin.

La Quintina
Jeremie Couleau, tenor, direction

La Quintina
Created in 2019, the ensemble takes its name from an ideal of Sardinian music. The quintina is this fifth voice produced, without being sung, by the harmonics of singers in a state of grace. This musical and aesthetic summit is a living heritage of a European culture whose origins date back to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Gathered around Jérémie Couleau, the musicians of La Quintina bring certain forgotten polyphonies to life without limiting themselves in time or space.

Booklet for Ymaginacions