Easter before the Reformation, as presented by Heinrich Isaac

Heinrich Isaac was a creative genius of the same generation as Josquin. His music probably needs to be better known today, and more widely performed. Thanks to the outpouring of amazing material in the digital, I’m learning about new things such as his Easter Mass.

3 Replies to “Easter before the Reformation, as presented by Heinrich Isaac”

  1. Issac is along with W. Byrd also one of the very few composers who in his Choralis Constantini set a (almost) complete set of propers for all Sundays and major feasts to polyphony.

    A link to live recording at our concert (7min cut, we sang Isaac's propers for the 4th Sunday of Advent and missa in die of the feast of Nativity of our Lord)
    http://youtu.be/TH1NVIaFcCw

  2. I discovered Isaac's Easter Mass about 2 years ago and immediately fell in love with it. I have an album of it performed by the Ensemble Officium which I really like a lot. I especially love his "Introit: Resurrexi a 6" and the "Sanctus". I was able to find the Kyrie, Gloria and Credo on youtube, but none of the others. Here is their recording of Isaac's Kyrie from the Easter Mass:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvJvzCD2l20&feature=related

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