Machaut: Missa de Nostre Dame

Guillaume de Machaut

Missa de Nostre Dame - Felix Virgo / Inviolata
Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge - Mary Berry, dir.
Herald 312

Contents:

Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame

1. Introit: Gaudeamus omnes
2. Kyrie
3. Gloria
4. Collect: Veneranda nobis, Domine
5. Epistle: Lectio libri Sapientiae
6. Gradual & Alleluia: Audi filia
7. Prose: Area virga
8. Gospel: In illo tempore
9. Creed: Credo in unum Deum
10. Offertory: Ave Maria, gratia plena

Guillaume de Machaut

11. Motet 23: Felix virgo / Inviolata genitrix

Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame

12. Orate Fratres: Secret & Preface
13. Sanctus & Benedictus
14. Canon: Hanc igitur - Consecration
15. Pater noster
16. Agnus dei
17. Communion: Dilexisti iusticiam
18. Postcommunion: Mense celestis
19. Ite missa est & Deo gracias

Playing time: 75' 49"

Performers:
Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge:
The Cantors: Ian Aikenhead (polyphony: alto), Peter Nardone (polyphony: alto), John Bowley (polyphony & Chant: tenor), William Lee (chant: tenor), Nicholas Todd (polyphony & chant: tenor), Roland Robertson (polyphony & chant: baritone), John Rowlands (chant: bass), Jeremy White (chant: bass)
Mary Berry, dir., Stephen Tilton, asst. dir.
with Clergy

Recording site and date:
Reims Cathedral, Reims, France [04/2004];
Rel.: 2005

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 32/2-249 (November / December 2008)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 84/1007-88 (July 2006)

Comments:
Information from CD.
The pieces of the Ordinary (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus and Ite Missa est) are those composed by Machaut, his Messe de Nostre Dame. The pieces of the Proper (Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Prose, Offertory and Communion) are those for the Feast of the Assumption.

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