When The Hilliard Ensemble collaborated with Norwegian Jan Garbarek on Officium (ECM, 1994) and the follow-up Mnemosyne (ECM, 1999), who knew that the combination of vocal music, ranging from pre-AD Greece to contemporary times, would mesh so beautifully with the legendary saxophonist's soaring improvisations? With Being Dufay, released in 2009 on ECM's classical New Series imprint, the label has taken … Continue reading Dufay Re-Imagined by John Potter and Ambrose Field
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Johannes Ciconia and Ars Subtilior : Bridging Machaut and Dufay
Johannes Ciconia was a Franco-Flemish composer, mainly active in Italy around 1400. Born in or around Liège, a Flemish bishopric, he moved to Italy at a young age and remained there for his entire life. In 1955 Heinrich Besseler suggested that the period between the death of Guillaume de Machaut in 1377 and the beginning … Continue reading Johannes Ciconia and Ars Subtilior : Bridging Machaut and Dufay