- Audio CD (30 Sep 2002)
- SPARS Code: DDD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Hyperion
- ASIN: B00006L3W9
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 412,307 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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I agree completely with the earlier review! Busnois has not been served very well by earlier recordings, but the excellent Binchois Consort have rectified this...and how! This is arguably the earliest of the many 'L'Homme Arme' masses to be composed (or perhaps it was Ockeghem's), which use this popular song in the cantus firmus. One theory is that the song is used in this mass to celebrate the accession to power of the famous Burgundian duke, and enthusiastic warrior, Charles the Bold...which dates it to around 1467. This music is muscular, powerful and instantly makes a profound impression (like Charles himself, no doubt!), which doesn't fade as the work progresses. No wonder it made such an impact on Busnois' contemporaries! I feel compelled to listen more of Busnois' music sung by these exceptional musicians. The other works on this disc are no less impressive, if less dramatic.
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Busnois's music is astonishingly lovely - my reaction on hearing this piece was; "where has Busnois being hiding - why is his light under a bushel!" In particular, his "Anima mea liqueafact est" liquifies the heart and soul! The music of Domarto and Pullois is also lovely but Busnois is the star here and, of course, the Binchois consort!
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Antoine Busnois' Missa "L'Homme Armé" (© All Renaissance Composers), composed in the 1460's was without doubt one of the most admired works of its time. It survives in no less than seven manuscripts - an astonishing number for a piece of that era - and even Dufay, Faugues and Obrecht amongst others "lifted" aspects of its construction for their own masses of the same name. Whether or not Busnois actually wrote the earliest Missa "L'Homme Armé" (and indeed whether Busnois originally wrote the chanson "L'Homme Armé") is a matter of debate, but it was certainly the most influential. The contemporary theorist Tinctoris lumped Busnois in with his not particularly large list of greatest composers, and dedicated one of his treatises jointly to Busnois and Ockeghem.
Busnois himself was, it seems, in his turn influenced by the lesser known - but again one praised by Tinctoris - figure of Petrus de Domarto, who penned the other mass on this disc, Missa "Spiritus almus", employing a cantus firmus from a melisma on the words "spiritus almus" in the Marian responsory "Stirps Jesse", which latter piece incidentally forms the cantus firmus for Busnois' motet "Anima mea liquefacta est" here preceding the mass on this recording.
The programme is completed with another Busnois motet "Gaude celestis domina", and a hugely admired motet, given the manuscript circulation, "Flos de spina" by Jean Pullois who spent time at the Church of Our Lady in Antwerp as did Domarto, and where Pullois was friends with Ockeghem.
In the hands of the Binchois Consort these compositions are brought to life. The vocalists have a fine balance and blend, and even though performing with two voices per part (ATTBx2) they are in possession of a real sharp-edged clarity of delivery you don't often find in many cases. The booklet notes by the ensemble's director Andrew Kirkman are excellent, and full Latin sung texts with translations are provided.
Busnois himself was, it seems, in his turn influenced by the lesser known - but again one praised by Tinctoris - figure of Petrus de Domarto, who penned the other mass on this disc, Missa "Spiritus almus", employing a cantus firmus from a melisma on the words "spiritus almus" in the Marian responsory "Stirps Jesse", which latter piece incidentally forms the cantus firmus for Busnois' motet "Anima mea liquefacta est" here preceding the mass on this recording.
The programme is completed with another Busnois motet "Gaude celestis domina", and a hugely admired motet, given the manuscript circulation, "Flos de spina" by Jean Pullois who spent time at the Church of Our Lady in Antwerp as did Domarto, and where Pullois was friends with Ockeghem.
In the hands of the Binchois Consort these compositions are brought to life. The vocalists have a fine balance and blend, and even though performing with two voices per part (ATTBx2) they are in possession of a real sharp-edged clarity of delivery you don't often find in many cases. The booklet notes by the ensemble's director Andrew Kirkman are excellent, and full Latin sung texts with translations are provided.
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