Lux Perpetua / Requiem

This Requiem is known in five sources: two of them mention
no composer, two attribute it to Antoine de Févin, and the Occo
Codex attributes it to Antoine Divitis. The work is recorded here
in the version transmitted by the Occo Codex, a sumptuous, richly
illuminated 16th-century manuscript. Composed at the very end of
the 15th century, shortly after Iohannes Ockeghem s setting, this
Requiem presents a perfect synthesis of the plainchant tradition and
the supreme technical skills of the Franco-Flemish polyphonists
who diffused their art throughout Western Europe. The luminous
work was discovered at the end of the 20th century, and has not yet
received the full measure of attention it deserves.