Ockeghem Masses 2 is an album by Sound And The Fury, released in 2022. The album is a classical CD.
Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1430-1497) was the first of his guild to devote himself in a special way to the composition of masses. As in his motets, the contrapuntal mastery of the works is fascinating. The second installment of the recording series with the vocal ensemble the sound and the fury presents the rarely heard four-part masses Missa Ecce ancilla Domine and Missa My My. -
This is The Sound and the Fury's second album with masses by Johannes Ockeghem. The composer develops his art from the contrast between different modes as well as the contrapuntal combination of identical melodies. Despite the complicated compositional techniques used, the overwhelmingly emotional experience of Ockeghem's music continues to fascinate even after 500 years. The Sound and the Fury was founded in 2005. An Anglo-German vocal group convening in Brixen and Vienna, the ensemble specializes entirely in performance of renaissance polyphony of the Franco-Flemish school.
Recording date: November 07, 2010 (Mauerbach Charterhouse, Church)