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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ars Subtilior: Dawn of the Renaissance is a collection that is the seventh volume in the Harmonia Mundi series Century. This is an idea previously pursued in the 1990s by the similarly named but wholly different concern Deutsche Harmonia Mundi as Century Classics. Century consists of several discs devoted to a progressive study of the history of ...
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