Agricola, A - Fortuna desperata

Extremely popular in the fifteenth century, the song Fortuna Desperata served as the inspiration for six masses and at least thirty-eight other derived settings from the fifteenth and sixteenth... — Pizzicato More…

[The Agricola is] the first recording of a piece that looks slight on the page but is moving enough in performance...it's good of Graindelavoix to tackle some fo the famous pieces of the time... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 More…

Agricola was praised by his contemporaries for the bizarre turn of his inspiration, and his music likened to quicksilver. By the standards of the period this is a highly unusual turn of phrase,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Agricola worked with Josquin and Ockeghem, was born in Ghent around 1447, and died in Spain in 1506. …the urbanity and elegance of his music would not have sounded old-fashioned in later Renaissance/Tudor... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Ensemble Leones' imaginative instrumental combinations and Fitch's fascinating, 'playful' reworkings of reworked works make an effective case...Listening to this attractive, evocative recording... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2013 More…