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| 1. Introit, Venite benedicti [5'51] |
| 2. Missa se la face ay pale, Kyrie [3'36] |
| 3. Missa se la face ay pale, Gloria [9'27] |
| 4. Gradual, Gloriosus Deus [6'05] |
| 5. Alleluia, Iudicabunt sancti [5'50] |
| 6. Missa se la face ay pale, Credo [9'14] |
| 7. Offertory, Mirabilis Deus [4'15] |
| 8. Missa se la face ay pale, Sanctus [7'08] |
| 9. Missa se la face ay pale, Agnus Dei [5'03] |
| 10. Communion, Gaudete iusti [2'18] |
| 11. Motet, O très piteulx [3'31] |
| 12. Ballade, Se la face ay pale [3'03] |
| 13. Motet, Magnanime gentis [6'37] |
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The Binchois Consort's first recordings of Dufay for Hyperion achieved iconic status, winning a Gramophone award along the way. Despite the proliferation of early music groups recording Dufay in their wake, the Binchois remain the ultimate musical authority on this great composer. Their latest recording contains what many consider to be Dufay's masterpiece. His Missa Se la face ay pale is one of the best known, and perhaps most revered, of all polyphonic masses. Indeed, it is a work of such renown that it enjoys a special kind of status among Renaissance mass cycles. Along with a handful of other such works, it has become a touchstone for the idea and structural design of the unified cantus firmus mass, a classic exemplification of the musical style and achievement of an era. The work is presented here, however, not as a five-movement sequence but in a more differentiated and perhaps more appropriate dramatic fashion, interspersed with music in a contrasting style for the Proper of the Mass (also five movements: Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory, Communion). The programme is completed by two motets and the ballade on which the mass is based. This recording evokes in sound something of the cultural achievement and brilliance of the Court of Savoy at its first peak of maturity, during the middle decades of the fifteenth century. The musical works performed here complement and enrich the historical picture of the late-medieval and Renaissance duchy that can be gleaned from the archives, libraries and museums. Live sound vividly extends and deepens the scope of such a picture, just as does an appreciation of the geographical and architectural settings which are the physical stage for such cultural developments.
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Guillaume Dufay's Missa Se La Face Ay Pale was one of the earliest continental polyphonic masses to build upon the new creativity introduced by English four part cyclic masses such as the Missa Caput and Missa Veterem Hominem. Based upon the chanson of the same name, also included on this disc, which was used as the cantus firmus, and most likely composed for the court of the Duchy of Savoy, it is probably Dufay's most famous work and amongst the most well known and admired of the later 15th century polyphonic masses emerging from the Franco-Flemish school. This is music retaining the power to move even today.
The polyphonic Ordinaries are accompanied by Propers for the feast of St Maurice, itself apparently closely associated with Savoy, plus two motets - O très piteulx, being Dufay's deploration on the fall of Constantinople in 1453, with tenor line taking text from Jeremiah's Lamentations, and Magnanime gentis, which was composed in honour of a treaty between Louis Duke of Savoy and his brother Philippe in 1438.
Conductor Andrew Kirkman has as always gathered a quality set of singers around him, though there is a downside on the recording which I have not noted in others from the Binchois Consort in that the performance lacks a certain textual clarity, which may possibly be down to a level of - to me at any rate - unusual and exaggerated pronunciation; this is my only reason really for not awarding a full five stars. The booklet notes are excellent as ever, covering historical background and the pieces themselves. Full Latin and French sung texts and translations are supplied.
The polyphonic Ordinaries are accompanied by Propers for the feast of St Maurice, itself apparently closely associated with Savoy, plus two motets - O très piteulx, being Dufay's deploration on the fall of Constantinople in 1453, with tenor line taking text from Jeremiah's Lamentations, and Magnanime gentis, which was composed in honour of a treaty between Louis Duke of Savoy and his brother Philippe in 1438.
Conductor Andrew Kirkman has as always gathered a quality set of singers around him, though there is a downside on the recording which I have not noted in others from the Binchois Consort in that the performance lacks a certain textual clarity, which may possibly be down to a level of - to me at any rate - unusual and exaggerated pronunciation; this is my only reason really for not awarding a full five stars. The booklet notes are excellent as ever, covering historical background and the pieces themselves. Full Latin and French sung texts and translations are supplied.
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Not as I was expecting
10 April 2009
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MANY years ago I had a record (in the 60's) with some of the same titles aswas on this CD. I was hoping it was similar but it wasn't. While I will listen to it again sometime, I was disappointed.
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