40 years of L’Homme Armé

Music by A. Brumel, J. Mouton, Josquin Desprez, Nino Le Petit.

Ensemble L’Homme Armé
cantus: Giovanna, Baviera, Marta Fumagalli, Matteo Pigato
altus: Alberto Allegrezza, Andrés Montilla
tenor: Paolo Fanciullacci, Riccardo Pisani
bassus: Guglielmo Buonsanti, Gabriele Lombardi

Director Fabio Lombardo

Full tickets € 15
Two people booked together € 25
Reduced  tickets € 8 (students of music schools, young adults up to 30 years of age, adults over 65 years of age)

Programme
Antoine Brumel (ca 1460-1513?)
Da pacem

Josquin Desprez (ca 1450-1521)
Missa l’homme armé super voces musicales
Kyrie
Gloria

Jean Mouton (ca 1459-1522)
Quaeramus cum pastoribus
Noe noe, psallite

Missa l’homme armé
Credo

Ninot le Petit (fine XV-inizio XVI)
Psallite noe

Missa l’homme armé
Sanctus
Agnus Dei

Two themes are intertwined in the program: the melody of “l’homme armé” which, following the musical hexachord (ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la) moves from one tone to another within the monumental mass by Josquin Desprez; and “noe, noe”, the cry of the shepherds who celebrate the most famous birth of the western Christianity. The two themes intertwine through some works by different though contemporary composers, all coming from the Franco-Flemish area but all passing through the Italian peninsula.