“L’homme arme” and two Missa “L’homme arme"s on tonight’s “Evening Concert”

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on FM 90.9 you’ll hear the “Festival of Early Music Cologne” from the “Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts” series. Ensemble Almire sings the ancient tune “L’homme arme” and then the “L’homme arme” Masses by Josquin and Palestrina.

Wednesday, February 7: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (DWF 17/18, No. 6)

Festival of Early Music Cologne

Anon: L'homme armé 

Josquin Desprez: Mass L'homme armé (The armed man, on the sixth tone);

and Ave Maria;  and Inviolata integra et casta es Maria (Inviolate, spotless and pure art thou, O Mary);

and Absalon fili mi (Absalon my son); and Stabat mater

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Mass L'homme armé (The armed man);  

and Sicut lilium inter spinas (As the lily among thorns); and Salve regina

 Recorded by West German Radio, Cologne (WDR) in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Cologne on April 2, 2017

Compagnia di Punto; Michael Hofstetter, conductor; Marie Friederike Schöder, soprano

Johann Sebastian Bach: Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke (I am content with my luck), BWV 84

and Orchestral Suite No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1076

Recorded by West German Radio, Cologne (WDR) in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Cologne on March 19, 2017