Arranged for The Primavera Project for four cellos by our co-founder and cellist Matt Haimovitz, we are thrilled with the sheet music release of this beautiful Josquin work!
Kyrie is recorded by Matt Haimovitz on our second album, PRIMAVERA II the rabbits.
Josquin des Prez likely overlapped with Sandro Botticelli in the artistically flourishing Florence of the late 15th century. In her commission for THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT, Missa Primavera for solo cello, Lisa Bielawa references Josquin’s Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae in four vocal parts. As a companion piece or standing on its own, this arrangement of the Kyrie from the Missa Hercules strips away the words, adapting the vocal parts to an ensemble of four celli. The cantus firmus anchors the composition; the purity of contour, ambiguity of meter, and symbolism embedded in the independent lines remind us that complex counterpoint was very much alive two centuries before the music of J.S. Bach.
Matt Haimovitz
For score details and purchase, click here: https://oxingalemusic.com/2023/08/03/kyrie/