Le Jeune Missa Ad Placitum

Le Jeune: Missa Ad Placitum, etc.

Choir of New College Oxford - Edward Higginbottom
Hyperion 66387

Contents:

Magnificat

1. Titelouze: Magnificat anima mea (organ)
2. Et exultavit
3. Titelouze: Quia respexit (organ)
4. Quia fecit
5. Titelouze: Et misericordia elus (organ)
6. Fecit potentiam
7. Titelouze: Deposuit potentes (organ)
8. Esurientes implevit
9. Titelouze: Suscepit Israel (organ)
10. Sicut locutus est
11. Titelouze: Gloria Patri (organ)
12. Sicut erat
13. Benedicite Dominum

Missa Ad Placitum

14. Kyrie eleison
15. Gloria in excelsis Deo
16. Credo in unum Deum
17. Racquet: Offertorium - Fantasie (organ)
18. Sanctus
19. Benedictus
20. Agnus Dei

Playing time: 68'

Recording date: July 1989

Le Jeune's Mass is composed "freely," i.e. without a unifying theme; it is one of the most contrapuntally complex masses of the period. Clear reasons for the Protestant Le Jeune writing a mass are unknown, but basic speculation is that he wanted to contribute to this musical tradition.

The polyphony is sung by a large choir of men and boys; the performance is emotional and relatively clear (given the bulk of such an ensemble).

The Magnificat performance alternates Le Jeune's polyphony with the organ verses written by Jehan Titelouze (c.1563-1633); the mass includes an offertory movement by the obscure organ composer Charles Racquet.

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