IDAGIO | Basevi Codex - Music at the Court of Margaret of Austria 4022143977830

Featuring

Dorothee Mields
Jin-Ju Baek
Elisabeth Champollion
Julia Fritz
Luise Manske
Boreas Quartett Bremen

Anonymous
Johannes Ghiselin
Pierre de La Rue
Jacob Obrecht
Loyset Compère
Antoine Brumel
Matthaeus Pipelare
Johannes Ockeghem
Alexander Agricola
Johannes Prioris
Heinrich Isaac

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Instruments

The Boreas Quartett Bremen owns a collection of over 40 recorders, including a twelve-piece Renaissance consort built after original 16th-century instruments.

Composer Biography

Pierre Alamire, the alias of Peter Imhoff, was a versatile figure who was a member of the Burgundian court chapel, an entrepreneurial music scribe, a courier, and even undertook diplomatic and espionage missions.

Composition History

The Basevi Codex is a music manuscript created in the early 16th century for the court of Margaret of Austria, produced in the famous music scribing workshop of Pierre Alamire.

Historical Context

During the 16th century, complex polyphonic music was still written by hand, making the production of magnificent music manuscripts very expensive and affordable only by princes, nobility, and rich patricians.

Interpretation

The performers, Boreas Quartett Bremen, chose to add a vocal part to their quartet for this recording, as the human voice was considered the model for all instruments in Renaissance music.

Composer Biography

Margaret of Austria, daughter of Emperor Maximilian I, was a highly educated, art-loving princess who served as regent of the Burgundian Netherlands for 25 years, attracting musicians, painters, and scholars to her court.