Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame

Messe de Notre Dame de Guillaume de Machaut

Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Harmonic 8931
Cantus 9624

Contents:

1. Introït: Gaudeamus omnes in domino
2. Kyrie eleyson (a 4)
3. Gloria in excelsis Deo (a 4)
4. Collecte: Veneranda nobis
5. Epître: Lectio libri Sapiente
6. Graduel: Propter veritatem
7. Alleluia, assumpta est Maria
8. Evangile: In illo tempore intravit Jesus
9. Credo in unum Deum (a 4)
10. Offertoire: Diffusa est gratia
11. Préface
12. Sanctus - Benedictus (a 4)
13. Pater Noster
14. Agnus Dei (a 4)
15. Communion: Regina mundi
16. Post-communion: Mense celestis
17. Ite missa est (a 4)

Performers: Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Emmanuel Bonnardot (baritone), Jacques Bona (bass), Dominique Vellard (tenor), Hervé Lamy (tenor), Philippe Balloy (baritone), Willem de Waal (baritone)

Playing time: 56'

Recording date: September 1990 (Collégiale Saint-Martin de Champeaux, Seine et Marne)

This is an all-male vocal recording, using chant for the Propers (Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) and Machaut's polyphony for the Ordinary. The performance itself is perhaps the most widely acclaimed, although Machaut's Mass is lucky enough to have received many notable performances.

A small selection of other significant recordings:

Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame

Taverner Consort and Choir - Andrew Parrott
EMI Reflexe 47949

Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame

Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi 901590

Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame

Clemencic Consort / Ensemble Nova / Polifonica Lucchese e Capella Santa Cecilia - René Clemencic
Arte Nova 85289

Messe de Nostre Dame

Machaut / Dufay - 5 Sacred Songs
Pro Musica Antiqua - Safford Cape
Archiv Codex Series 453 162

For more recordings, see the discography prepared by Pierre Roberge.

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