Capilla Flamenca

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Capilla Flamenca is a prominent vocal and instrumental early music consort based in Leuven, Belgium. The group specialises in 15th and 16th Century music from Flanders and takes its name from the choir of the court chapel of Emperor Charles V. When the emperor left Flanders in 1517, he took his best musicians with him to Spain to accompany him as "living polyphony". The group's musical director, Dirk Snellings, is a noted musicologist as well as a performer of early music.

The core of the Capilla Flamenca consists of four male singers:

Marnix De Cat (Countertenor)
Tore Tom Denys (Tenor)
Lieven Termont (Baritone)
Dirk Snellings (Bass)

The vocal core of the Capilla Flamenca is enlarged with complementary singers, an alta capella of wind instruments and a bassa capella of string instruments or an organ according to the needs of the genre.

[edit] Discography

1993 - Puer nobis. Christmas in the Renaissance. Eufoda 1147.
1993 - Renaissance. Polyfonie in Brugge. The Songbook of Zeghere van Male. Eufoda 1155.
1995 - Zingen en spelen in Vlaamse steden en begijnhoven. Music in Flemish Cities and Beguignages 1400-1500. Eufoda 1266.
1996 - Missa Alleluia. Muziek aan het Bourgondische hof. Eufoda 1232.
1996 - Oh Flanders Free. Music of the Flemish Renaissance: Ockeghem, Josquin, Susato, La Rue. Alamire LUB 03, Naxos 8.554516.
1996 - Sei Willekomen. Capilla Flamenca and Flanders Recorder Quartet. Eufoda 1256.
1996 - Concentu melodiae. K.U.Leuven 96-01
1998 - Bassano: Viva L'Amore. Capilla Flamenca and Flanders Recorder Quartet. Opus 111 30-239.
1998 - Margarete - Maximilian I. Musik um 1500. Capilla Flamenca with "La Caccia", "Knaben de Schola Cantorum Cantate Domino Aalst", "Schola Gregoriana Lovaniensis".ORF Shop CD 265 (2 CDs).
1999 - The A-La-Mi-Re Manuscripts. Flemish Polyphonic Treasures for Charles V: Josquin, De la Rue, Willaert. Naxos 8.554744.
1999 - I Fiamminghi - V. Brassart: In festo Corporis Christi. Ricercar 233362.
2000 - Jean de Castro: Polyphony in a European Perspective. Capilla Flamenca with "More Maiorum", Piffaro, "Trigon-Project", "Wim Diepenhorst" and "Bart Demuyt". Passacaille 931.
2001 - Resonanzen 2001. Viva España. Capilla Flamenca and others. ORF "Edition Alte Musik" CD 281.
2001 - The Flemish Organ Heritage. Capilla Flamenca and A. van den Kerckhoven. Naxos 8.555809
2001 - Arnold de Lantins: Missa Verbum Incarnatum. Capilla Flamenca with Psallentes and Clari Cantuli. Ricercar 207.
2002 - La Rue: Missa de septem doloribus. Capilla Flamenca and Psallentes. Musique en Wallonie 0207.
2002 - Musica Reservata. Endangered Sounds. Capilla Flamenca and Psallentes. Alamire Foundation 2002
2002 - Vivanco: Libro de Motetes (1610). Capilla Flamenca and Oltremontano. LCD 9706.
2002 - Prioris: Requiem. Eufoda 1349.
2003 - Foi. Ars nova, oral traditional music and more. CAPI 2003
2003 - Utendal / De Monte: Motets. Capilla Flamenca and Oltremontanto. Passacaille 937.
2003 - Canticum Canticorum. In Praise of Love: The Song of Songs in the Renaissance. Eufoda 1359.
2004 - Zodiac. Ars Nova and Ars Subtilior in the Low Countries and Europe. Eufoda 1360.
2004 - Obrecht: Chansons, Songs, Motets. Capilla Flamenca and Piffaro. Eufoda 1361.
2005 - Priest and Bon Vivant. Sounds of the City of Louvain from the 16th Century. Works by Clemens non Papa and his contemporaries. Capilla Flamenca and La Caccia. Etcetera 1287.
2005 - Dulcis Melancholia. Biographie musicale de Marguerite d'Autriche. Musique en Wallonie MEW 525.
2005 - La Rue: Missa Ave Maria, Vespers. Capilla Flamenca and Psallentes. Musique en Wallonie 0633.
2006 - Flemish and Walloon Organ Treasure, Volume 4. Capilla Flamenca and Joris Verdin.Vision-Air 2006/1
2006 - Lumina. Christmas Around The 1500's. Capilla Flamenca and Pueri. Eufoda 1366
2007 - Désir D'aymer. Love Lyrics Around 1500: From Flanders To Italy. Capilla Flamenca. Eufoda 1369
2007 - Lambert de Sayve: Sacred Music. Capilla Flamenca and Oltremontano. KTC 4022
2007 - Salve Mater Salve Jesu. Chant and Polyphony From Bohemia Around 1500. Capilla Flamenca and Schola Gregoriana Pragensis, with Barbara Maria Willi. KTC 1346

[edit] Sources

'Goldberg Magazine at the Utrecht Early Music Exhibition', Goldberg Magazine, June 2005
Description and discography on Naxos Records
John Milsom, 'Beyond Josquin', Early Music, Oxford University Press, Volume 32, Number 1, February 2004, pp. 159-165
Eugeen Schreurs, 'New Findings on Music Fragments from Tongeren with Two Chansons by Ockeghem', Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (1997), pp. 119-138
David Patrick Stearns, 'Piffaro melds music, Bosch', The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 13, 2006 (scan of the original article available on the Capilla Flamenca web site)