Playing time: 64' 12"
Performers:
The Clerk's Group
Carys Lane (soprano), Rebecca Outram (soprano), Robin Blaze (alto),
William Missin (alto), Stephen Harrold (tenor), James Gilchrist
(tenor), Matthew Vine (tenor), Jonathan Arnold (bass), Robert
Macdonald (bass)
Edward Wickham, dir.
Recording site and date:
St. Andrew's Church, West Wratting, UK [02/1998];
Rel.: 1999
Compilation:
Gaudeamus CD GAU 550 [CD] The Ockeghem
Collection
Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Comments:
Information from CD.
This interpretation adopts the somewhat unusual approach of
performing Ockeghem's "any mode" mass in a couple of
different modes on some tracks. The Phrygian mode is often given
as the likely "true" mode of the mass, suggesting that
the title actually asks a question rather than designating a true
catholicon (or alternately that Ockeghem's conception in Phrygian
shows through despite a desire to blunt it). However,
Peter Urquhart and others do argue for
the performability of the full mass in other modes. Track #8 is
a doubtful attribution.
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Todd M. McComb