Originally released in 1993, this exceptional recording of Johannes Ockeghem's Requiem has been reissued in Harmonia Mundi's Musique d'abord line with a change of packaging and a reduction of price. This Requiem is a beautiful example of the plainchant mass and is the earliest surviving polyphonic Mass for the Dead. It was most likely written in ...
The anonymous Flemish Messe de Tournai, compiled somewhere between 1325 and 1330, is the oldest complete polyphonic mass in existence. Intended for performance in the Cathedral Notre Dame in the Belgian city of Tournai, the Messe de Tournai is preserved in a manuscript otherwise consisting of monophonic chant. Drawing from the monophonic sections ...
This three-CD set from Harmonia Mundi purports on the packaging to offer "the finest masses in musical history." Of course that's an impossible goal, and the liner notes back off from it with various disclaimers. The question to ask about a set like this, assembled from existing Harmonia Mundi releases going back to 1986, is whether it either ...
Marcel Pérès and Ensemble Organum's Messe de Noël reconstructs a liturgical Christmas mass from twelfth century sources associated with the school of Notre Dame. Most of the polyphony is taken from Wolfenbüttel 628, whereas the monophonic sections are derived from a number of manuscripts of the time; a couple of pieces of modern derivation taken ...
Marcel Pérès and Ensemble Organum's Codex Chantilly: Ballades & Rondeaux takes on the toughest of all medieval manuscript collections this side of the Llibre Vermell, the Codex Chantilly, a late fourteenth century gathering of 112 pieces that is our primary testimony to the ars subtilior, a kind of avant-garde music favored at the papal court ...
This recording of Ensemble Organum in Guillaume de Machaut's Messe de Notre-Dame -- a pivotal piece, as it is the earliest complete polyphonic mass setting by a named Western composer of prominence -- entered the field as one of the most controversial early music recordings ever. Marcel Pérès and his group decided to vocally ornament the music, a ...
Josquin's Missa Pange Lingua, composed around 1515 near the end of the composer's long life, is rightly considered one of the greatest monuments of Renaissance music. With a dark palette generated by its use of the Phrygian mode (the notes corresponding to a scale played on the white keys of a piano starting with E) and a deeply expressive style ...
The music recorded here is taken from a twelfth century manuscript that originated in the basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, based on the liturgical practices of the Knights Templar, a non-monastic order founded to protect Jerusalem and the Christians who made pilgrimage there. The CD avoids the monotony that can sometimes afflict ...
Prior to Guillaume de Machaut's Notre Dame Mass, a complete polyphonic setting of the Mass Ordinary in the third quarter of the fourteenth century, inaugurating a tradition that has come down to the present time, various anonymous composers made experimental steps in that direction, creating several related mass movements. This disc by the ...
The repertoire recorded here largely has the sound of medieval plainchant, but it was in fact newly composed in eighteenth century France at the Cathedral of Auxterre. The bishop of Auxterre was determined to create a body of music specific to French liturgical traditions rather than simply following Roman models, and this CD draws on that ...
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