Basevi Codex - Music at the Court of Margaret of Austria Dorothee Mields & Boreas Quartett Bremen

• Anonymous:
• 1Ave Maria (I)01:31
• Johannes Ghiselin (1455 - 1511):
• 2Ghiselin: Fors Seulement02:51
• Pierre de la Rue (1452 - 1518):
• 3Rue: Plorer, gemir / Requiem04:05
• Jacob Obrecht (1457 - 1505):
• 4Obrecht: Requiem03:23
• Pierre de la Rue:
• 5Rue: Il viendra le jour Désiré01:58
• 6Rue: Puisque je suis hors du Compte02:02
• Loyset Compère (1445 - 1518):
• 7Compère: Scaramella fa la Galla02:32
• Anonymous:
• 8Amours mon Fait02:43
• Antoine Brumel (1460 - 1513):
• 9Brumel: James que La02:27
• Pierre de la Rue:
• 10Rue: Fors Seulement02:35
• Matthaeus Pipelare (1450 - 1515):
• 11Pipelare: Fors Seulement01:55
• Johannes Ockeghem (1420 - 1497):
• 12Ockeghem: Fors Seulement02:11
• Alexander Agricola (1445 - 1506):
• 13Agricola: Tout a pour Moy03:55
• Anonymous:
• 14Ave Maria (II)01:36
• Alexander Agricola:
• 15Agricola: Sonnés, Muses03:01
• Johannes Prioris (1460 - 1514):
• 16Prioris: Deuil et Ennuy01:51
• 17Prioris: Royne du ciel / Regina Caeli03:39
• Jacob Obrecht:
• 18Obrecht: Missa Fortuna Desperata: Kyrie01:46
• 19Obrecht: Missa Fortuna Desperata: Sanctus02:31
• 20Obrecht: Missa Fortuna Desperata: Osanna04:37
• Pierre de la Rue:
• 21Rue: Ma bouche Rit04:17
• Heinrich Isaac (1450 - 1517):
• 22Isaac: La mi la Sol02:10
• Anonymous:
• 23Ave Maria (III)01:42
• Total Runtime01:01:18

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Basevi Codex: Music at the Court of Margaret of Austria.

The Boreas Quartett Bremen and soprano Dorothee Mields bring a little-known musical manuscript of the renaissance to life and present a series of premiere recordings.

The Basevi Codex, a collection of Franco-Flemish chansons, motets and mass settings, was produced during the early sixteenth century in the famous music scribing workshop of Pierre Alamire. Faithfully following renaissance performance practice, which allowed great freedom in its musical realisation, the recorder consort and Dorothee Mields interpret selected pieces from the codex, with voice or purely instrumental, and, depending on the character of the piece, also with improvised virtuoso ornamentation. This creates a colourful picture of the music as it was sung and played at the Burgundian-Dutch court of Princess Margaret of Austria in Mechelen.

This recording is the second volume of a multi-part audite recording series with recorder player Julia Fritz, and the audite debut recording of the Boreas Quartett Bremen.

Dorothee Mields, soprano Boreas Quartett Bremen

Dorothee Mields
is one of the leading interpreters of 17 th and 18 th century music and is admired for her unique timbre and moving interpretations.

She appears regularly with the Collegium Vocale Gent, Netherlands Bach Society, L’Orfeo Barockorchester, Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, Lautten Compagney Berlin, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Toronto, The English Concert, Early Music Vancouver, Gli Angeli Genève and Holland Baroque, under conductors such as Michi Gaigg, Paul Goodwin, Philippe Herreweghe, Emilio Pomàrico, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Shunske Sato, Andreas Spering and Masaaki Suzuki.

Dorothee Mields is a welcome guest at international festivals, including Leipzig Bach Festival, Thüringer Bachwochen, Bachwoche Stuttgart, Musikfest Erzgebirge, Musikfest Bremen, Heinrich-Schütz-Musikfest, Festival of Flanders, Styriarte Graz and Boston Early Music Festival.

As a devoted chamber musician she partners with Stefan Temmingh, Hille Perl, Salagon Quartett, Hathor Consort or the G. A.P. Ensemble.

A steadily growing discography with several award-winning recordings documents her artistic achievements. The album “War & Peace” with the Lautten Compagney Berlin was awarded with the Opus Klassik 2019. Equally well received was “Handel’s Tea Time” with the Freitagsakademie Bern, released in 2020.

Boreas Quartett Bremen
Since its inception in 2009, the Boreas Quartett Bremen has dedicated itself to the core repertoire of the recorder quartet: music from the renaissance and the modern era. The ensemble possesses a collection of over 40 recorders in various models and sizes, including a twelve-piece renaissance consort by Peter van der Poel, built after original instruments of the sixteenth century.

The Boreas Quartett Bremen has been invited by festivals including Musikfest Bremen, MDR-Musiksommer, Tage Alter Musik Saarbrücken, Boston Early Music Festival (USA), Music Before 1800 New York (USA), Musica Antica Urbino (Italy), Taiwan International Recorder Festival, Concentus Moraviae (Czech Republic), baroque muerz (Austria) and AMUZ Antwerp (Belgium). The four musicians have been praised in the press for their “tonal mastery”, their “lively, great expressiveness, outstanding technique, perfect into- nation and incredible precision in their music-making”.

Jin-Ju Baek, Elisabeth Champollion, Julia Fritz and Luise Manske studied recorder from 2004 to 2009 with Han Tol at the Early Music department of the University of the Arts Bremen.

In 2014, the ensemble was accepted into Germany’s 59th Federal Selection of Young Artists’ Concerts, and in 2012, the quartet won the Saarländischer Rundfunk’s Early Music Advancement Prize and the Audience Award. The musicians have also been able to gain the support of foundations for numerous projects, including the foundations “Laudate, Cantate”, Heinz Peter and Annelotte Koch, Waldemar Koch, Dr. Christiane and Bernd Rogge and the Mariann Steegmann Foundation. From 2020 to 2023, the Boreas Quartett Bremen will be supported by the Bremen culture senator’s ensemble programme.

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