Josquin des Prez: Cappella Sonora presented this probably first-ever in Arizona concert devoted entirely to the music of Josquin des Prez in October 2001 in the newly renovated Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Phoenix. The concert features a selection of Josquin's most famous secular chansons and frottolas, accompanied by lutes, recorders, hurdy-gurdy, harps, and percussion. Several of Josquin's motets are featured as well, including the starkly moving Nimphes des bois, a musical eulogy by Josquin for the most celebrated composer of the preceding generation, Johannes Ockeghem. Finally, the group concludes this program with one of Josquin's late period masterpieces, the Missa sine nomine, a tour-de-force of compositional technique in which he creates a complex web of canons (large sections of music which "echo" each other) as a framework, yet still retaining the emotional expression which sets Josquin apart from arguably all other pre-Baroque composers.

"Ave Maria": This all-Marian program takes as its focal point Josquin's well-known motet Ave Maria, gratia plena, complementing it with two ambitious parodies: first, the six-voice expansion of Josquin's work by Ludwig Senfl (sort of a "Josquin on steroids" version!), then rounding out the program with Antoine Fevin's mass setting based on the Josquin. The result is a satisfying exploration of one of the most common compositional techniques used in early sacred music, that of using the motives and sometimes the harmonic patterns of pre-existing music (often secular tunes) as the basis for a new sacred composition.