Du Caurroy: Requiem

Renaissance Masterpiece Volume III - Paris
Eustache du Caurroy
The Choir of New College, Oxford - Edward Higginbottom
Collins Classics 1497

Contents:

  1. Motet à 4: Veni sanctus spiritus
  2. Missa pro Defunctis à 5 - Requiem
  3. Missa pro Defunctis - Kyrie
  4. Missa pro Defunctis - Si ambulem
  5. Missa pro Defunctis - Domine Jesu
  6. Missa pro Defunctis - Sanctus
  7. Missa pro Defunctis - Agnus Dei
  8. Missa pro Defunctis - Lux aeterna
  9. Motet à 4: Benedicamus Domino
  10. Motet à 4: Ave Maria
  11. Motet à 5: Ave virgo gloriosa
  12. Motet à 4 et 5: Salve Regina
  13. Motet: Christe, qui lux es (à 4)
  14. Christe, qui lux es - Ne gravis (à 3)
  15. Christe, qui lux es - Memento nostri (à 6)
  16. Motet à 7: Victimae Paschali

Performers: Joseph Birch, Edmund Finnis, Nicholas Fuggle, John Herford, Thomas Herford, Orlando Higginbottom, David Mallinson, Peter Mallinson, Joseph Mills, Edward Mitchard, Oliver Thomas (trebles); Matthew Halls, Gregory Finch, Rupert Griffin, Duncan Saunderson, Stephen Taylor (altos); Matthew Beale, Philip Cave, Ben Rayfield, Adrian Salmon, Ben Hulett (tenors); Anthony Davidson, Eamonn Dougan, Colin Gordon, Clive Letchford, Richard Murray-Bruce, Paul Grier (basses)

Playing time: 67'

Recording date: September 1996 (Abbaye de Valloires, France)

Another recording of Du Caurroy of some merit, this time without instruments and using choirboys... very Romantic in conception. Included is a motet in full musique mesurée style (track #12), as well as others which make some use of the technique.

A recording of the closely related mass of Claude Le Jeune by this ensemble:

Le Jeune: Missa Ad Placitum, etc.
Choir of New College Oxford - Edward Higginbottom
Hyperion 66387

And recordings in the present series:

Renaissance Masterpiece Volume I - England
Byrd & Tallis
The Choir of New College, Oxford - Edward Higginbottom
Collins Classics 1487
Renaissance Masterpiece Volume II - Munich
Roland de Lassus
The Choir of New College, Oxford - Edward Higginbottom
Collins Classics 1494
Renaissance Masterpiece Volume IV - Rome
Palestrina
The Choir of New College, Oxford - Edward Higginbottom
Collins Classics 1509
Renaissance Masterpiece Volume V - Vienna
Philippe de Monte
The Choir of New College, Oxford - Edward Higginbottom
Collins Classics 1527

Finally, a repackaging:

Renaissance Masterpieces
Tallis / Gibbons / Tomkins / Taverner / Byrd / Lassus / Du Caurroy / Palestrina / De Monte
Choir of New College Oxford - Edward Higginbottom
Brilliant Classics 92433 (5 CDs)

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Todd M. McComb