Clemens non Papa [c1510-1555/56]:
Domine probasti
Domus mea
Cum esset anna

Johannes Lupi [c1506-1539]:
Sancta dei genitrix - Strips Iesse

Pierre Moulu [c1484-c1550]:
Vulnerasti

Heronimus Vinders [1525/26-15??]:
Magnificat

Anonymus:
Regina coeli

Johannes Lupi [c1506-1539]:
Stella maris luminosa

Clemens non Papa [c1510-1555/56]:
Advenit ignis

Cornelius Canis [ca1500/10-1561]:
Missa pastores loquebantur
Kyrie – Gloria – Sanctus (pleni sunt

benedictus)-Agnus I- Agnus II

Anonymus:
Missa pro fidelibus defunctis
INTROĎTUS
Requiem eternam dona eis domine - Te decet ijmnus – Et tibi reddetur
KYRIE
Christe – Kyrie
GRADUALE
Si ambulem – in medio umbre mortis - Duo:
Virga tua
PSALM Sicut servus – Desiderat ad fonts
PSALM Sitivit anima mea (tricinium)
PSALM Fuerunt mihi lacrime
OFFERTORIUM
Domine Jhesu Christe – Rex glorie
Quam olim abrahe
Hostias- Tu suscipe pro animabus
Requiem eternam – et lux perpetua
Quam olim abrahe
SANCTUS
Pleni sunt celi – osanna -Benedictus – qui
venit -Osanna
AGNUS DEI 1
Agnus dei 2 - Agnus dei 3
COMMUNIO
Lux eterna –Luceat eis domine -Cum sanctis
tuis - Et lux perpetua

Josquin des Prez [1450/55-1521]:
Responde mihi

The survival the Leiden Choirbooks from the iconoclastic fury in 1566 seems to indicate that the manuscripts were carefully kept somewhere under lock and key in the church. Today, these choirbooks provide unique and extremely valuable proof of the rich musical life of 16th-century Holland. Even though musical practice flourished greatly in Dutch churches in 16th century, extremely little evidence of this has survived in Dutch archives and libraries. Of the countless music manuscripts that were used by singers of the liturgical hours as well as others, only a fraction of these have survived the ravages of time.

The Egidius Quartet was founded in 1995. The core of their repertoire is music that was composed within the sphere of influence of the Habsburgs (Charles V, Margaret of Austria, Philip II ). Thanks to their own research and their collaboration with specialist musicologists and scholars of literature the quartet’s many CDs and concerts have drawn much attention to such unjustly forgotten masters as Nicolas Payen, Cornelius Canis, Thomas Crecquillon and Gheerkin de Hondt. They have also recorded the complete first two Musyck-boexkens (1555) of Tylman Susato and the Dutch-language repertoire from the Chansonnier (circa 1505) of Lauwerijn van Watervliet. A double CD will appear yearly from 2010 to 2015, each set being devoted to one of the six Leiden Choirbooks; the quartet’s intention is to revive the music contained in one of the greatest collections of polyphonic music in Western Europe and make it accessible to all.