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Mille Regretz (A Thousand Regrets)

Mille Regretz is a quiet setting of an anonymous text from the 16th Century. Most famously set by the Renaissance master Josquin de Prez in one of his best known Chansons, the text laments a deep regret in a love abandoned. Here, this setting of old French lies low in the choral tessitura, offering a darker quality of sound, while the musical material moves back and forth between stark allusions to the early music of the early Renaissance and a more lush, colorful, and almost distant, harmonic palette.

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