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Ockeghem: Requiem /Ensemble Organum * Peres Reviews
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Ockeghem's Requiem is his most widely performed work, and Pérès has made a recording of it unlike any other. He adds to Ockeghem's setting most of the plainchant required for a complete funeral Mass, as well as two movements by Antonius Divitis. Most notably, he and his ensemble perform Ockeghem's music at a much lower pitch than is customary--and in a direct, almost uninflected manner that seems to deliberately disregard modern assumptions about what constitutes "beautiful" or "musical" singing. Pérès is a serious, thoughtful musician and must have had well-considered reasons for all this, but typically (and maddeningly), the booklet says not one word about them. For those who know the work, this may be interesting; newcomers to Ockeghem should try the Clerks' Group on ASV. --Matthew Westphal
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