Pres is a catalogue shortening of Josquin des Prez, the Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer whose name also appears in several fuller forms in the Pristine catalogue.

Josquin’s works include masses, motets and chansons, and his music became a model of expressive polyphony across Europe. In the French Renaissance repertory represented here, his name belongs beside other major vocal composers of the period.

His style combines contrapuntal mastery with unusual clarity of musical gesture and text. Learned technique becomes direct and human in his finest works.

This page is therefore best understood as a cross-reference created by a shortened tag rather than as a separate composer. The real composer behind the label is Josquin des Prez.