Mouton: Missa Dictes Moy Toutes Voz Pensées, etc

Tallis Scholars/Phillips(Gimell)The subject of Peter Phillips' latest crusade on behalf of renaissance composers who deserve to be better known is Jean Mouton (c1459–1522). A younger contemporary of Josquin, he's routinely grouped among the Franco-Flemish school of Renaissance composers, though musically Mouton, who was born near Boulogne and spent his working life first in the churches and cathedrals of northern France and then at the court of Louis XII, was much more concerned with French po...

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