Cappella Amsterdam - Nymphes des Bois (Josquin des Prez)

Music: Josquin des Prez (1450-1521) - Nymphes des Bois
Alternative title: La déploration de la mort de Johannes Ockeghem
Choir: Cappella Amsterdam
Chief-conductor: Daniel Reuss

Choir Cappella Amsterdam and chief-conductor Daniel Reuss will perform 'Nymphes des Bois' in concert series 'Des Prez, Mozart & Andriessen' with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. From October 13-October 23 2022 in cities in The Netherlands, as well as Paris (FR), Cologne (DE), Essen (DE) and Ghent (BE).

More information: https://www.cappellaamsterdam.nl/prod...
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Director: Martin Sweers
Assistant Director: Angela Tellier
DOP: Robin Datema
Talent: Remy Tilburg
Production: Aysim Turkmenilli
Editing & Grading: Martin Sweers
Sound Design: Olivier Terpstra
On Set Assistant: Kristel van Dijk
Make-up: Beau Hoogerwerf
Art-Direction: Martin Sweers
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Lyrics (researched by Guy Laffaille, lieder.net ):
Nymphes des bois, déesses des fontaines,
Chantres experts de toutes nations,
Changez voz voix tant clères et haultaines
En cris trenchans et lamentations.
Car Atropos, très terrible satrape,
A vostre Ockeghem attrapé en sa trappe.
Vrai trésorier de musique et chief d'œuvre,
Doct, élégant de corps et non point trappe.
Grant dommage est que la terre le couvre.
Acoustrez vous d'habits de deuil
Josquin, Pierson, Brumel, Compère,
Et plourez grosses larmes d'œul :
Perdu avez vostre bon père.
Requiescat in pace. Amen.

Cantus fìrmus:
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,
Et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Requiescat in pace. Amen.

Translation:
Wood-nymphs, goddesses of the fountains,
Skilled singers of every nation,
Turn your voices, so clear and lofty,
To piercing cries and lamentation
Because Atropos, terrible satrap,
Has caught your Ockeghem in her trap,
The true treasurer of music and master,
Learned, handsome and by no means stout.
It is a source of great sorrow that the earth must cover him.

Put on the clothes of mourning,
Josquin, Pierson, Brumel, Compère,
And weep great tears from your eyes,
For you have lost your good father.

May they rest in peace.
Amen.

Cantus firmus:
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them.