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Richafort: Requiem – The King’s Singers, David Skinner

Few composers of any age have enjoyed the widespread admiration and unanimous praise of successive generations as Josquin des Prez. He is considered the greatest creator and innovator of musical composition during the Renaissance, and for half a millennium his music has stood the test of time. He is remembered as much for his own works as for his lasting influence on his contemporaries and students, demonstrated in many of the compositions written in tribute of ‘the master’ featured in this programme. The programme’s centrepiece is Jean Richafort’s Requiem mass (Missa pro defunctis), a tribute that employs several of Josquin’s compositional devices. The King’s Singers once again demonstrate their versatility and trademark precision in this new programme devised by the leading early-music scholar and conductor David Skinner.