Seven beautiful, melancholic motets and a chanson by Renaissance composer Nicolas Gombert, arranged for instruments by James Weeks, who also composed the interludes.
Gombert’s music was renowned for the complexity of its polyphony, and these realisations, played by leading experimental ensemble Apartment House, emphasise the layered density of the music, while trying to take it as far away as possible from its origins as choral church music.
…the music here is rather more complicated than that as the album comprises eight Gombert compositions — seven motets and a chanson — as well as four interludes composed by James Weeks which were commissioned by…