MUSIC AT THE DANISH COURT CHAPEL IN THE 1540'S
Winds and Voices II
Copenhagen Cornetts & Sackbutts
Bo Holten
Musica Ficta

Anonymous, composer
Heinrich Finck, composer
Nicolas Gombert, composer
Melchoir Kugelmann, composer
Jørgen Presten, composer
Josquin de Prez, composer
Ludwig Senfl, composer
Thomas Stoltzer, composer
Severin Tham, composer

About
The Copenhagen part books of 1547 and 1556 contain a unique repertoire fromn a North European chapel royal. The music, sacred and secular, was to a great extent used as table music at the Royal Danish Court. It is performed here with voices, cornetts, sackbutts, crumhorns and shawms.

Reviews
The orchstra plays with great refinement and total sensitivity (Fanfare)

Bo Holten holds the music in a sensitive iron grip.
(Ekstra Bladet)

Credits
Recorded at Kastelskirken, Copenhagen, on 4, 8 and 9 September 1997

Recording producer: Bent Grønholdt
Sound engineer: Clemens Johansen
Editing: Bent Grønholdt and Clemens Johansen

Cover painting: "Rast im Walde" by Thomas Springinklee (1516)

Recording kindly sponsored by Magister Jørgen Balzers Fond

This recording is based on the following editions:
DANIA SONANS IV-V. Music form the time of Christian III
Edited by Henrik Glahn (1978/85): 1-3,6,8-10,12-14,16-18
Ludwig Senfl: Sämtliche Werke V. Edited by A. Geering: 15
N. Gombert: Opera Omnia III-IV. Edited by S. Schmidt-Görg: 5 and 7
Transcription of 4 and 11 by Peter Woetmann Christoffersen

This CD has been recorded in cooperation with Danmarks Radio