Carlos V: Mille Regretz, La Canción del Emperador [Hybrid SACD] [Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import]

Heinrich Isaac (Composer), French Anonymous (Composer), Juan del Encina (Composer), Josquin Desprez (Composer), Spanish Anonymous (Composer), Tylman Susato (Composer), Thoinot Arbeau (Composer), Antonio de Cabezon (Composer), Adrian Willaert (Composer), Anonymous (Composer), Cristobal de Morales (Composer), Girolamo Parabosco (Composer), Mateo [1] Flecha (Composer), Luys de Narvaez (Composer), La Capella Reial de Catalunya (Performer), Hesperion XXI (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hesperion XXI
• Composer: Heinrich Isaac, French Anonymous, Juan del Encina, Josquin Desprez, Spanish Anonymous, et al.
• Audio CD (April 8, 2003)
• SPARS Code: AAD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import
• Label: Alia Vox Spain
• ASIN: B000071XA7
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #112,150 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #56 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Chansons
  • #65 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Partsongs

Track Listings

1. Fortuna desperata (unspecified)

2. Dit le Bourgignon

3. Quand je bois du vin clairet, madrigal

4. Amor con fortuna

5. Vive le roy, instrumental piece for 4 parts

6. Todos los bienes del mundo for 4 voices

7. La Spagna, song for 5 parts (doubtful)

8. Harto de Tanta Porfia, song

9. Pavane: La Bataille, for instrumental ensemble

10. Belle qui tiens ma vie

11. Diferencias sobre 'Belle qui tiens ma vie'

12. Vecchie letrose non valete niente, canzona for 4 voices

13. Fanfarria

14. Missa 'Mille regretz': Sanctus

15. Da Pacem Domine (Ricercare 14)

16. Jubilate Deo Omnis Terra, for 6 voices

17. Mille regretz, song for 4 parts

18. La guerra, ensalada for 4 voices: Todos los buenos soldados (Fragmento)

19. Missa 'Mille regretz': Agnus Dei

20. Cancion del emperador, for vihuela

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Candidate for that desert island, January 28, 2009

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Sophie (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carlos V: Mille Regretz, La Canción del Emperador [Hybrid SACD] (Audio CD)

Essentially, this CD is a sampling of High-Renaissance music (both instrumental and vocal) during the reign of Charles V (AD 1500-1558), a Hapsburg who ruled the Holy Roman Empire and Spain. His reiqn was characterized by the dramatic expansion of the Spanish into the New World -- as well as by continuous warring in Europe.

The "Mille Regretz" title cut is a composition by perhaps the best-known composer of the day, Josquin Deprez:
"It is with great regret that I leave you
And lose sight of your loving face;
I suffer such grief and pain
That you will see my days are numbered."

Accordingly, this album offers, overall, a warm--yet almost elegiac--voluptuousness (a couple Renaissance dances, notwithstanding). Although Amazon provides no sound samples for "Mille Regretz," you can catch its flavor by checking out other albums on the Alia Vox label, like "Ostinato." (They're all . . . wonderful!)