Dufay: Missa Sancti Jacobi

Dufay: Music for St. James the Greater

Binchois Consort - Andrew Kirkman
Hyperion 66997 [CD]
Hyperion "Gramophone Award Series" 21997 [CD]
Hyperion Helios 55272 [CD]

Contents:

Mass for St. James the Greater

1. Introit
2. Kyrie
3. Gloria
4. Alleluia
5. Credo
6. Offertory
7. Sanctus
8. Agnus Dei
9. Communio
10. Rite majorem Jacobum canamus / Arcibus summis miseri reclusi
11. Balsamus et munda cera
12. Gloria -
13. Credo
14. Apostolo glorioso

Performers: Mark Chambers (alto), David Gould (alto), Fergus McLusky (alto), Robin Tyson (alto), James Gilchrist (tenor), Chris Watson (tenor), Andrew Carwood (tenor), Edwin Simpson (tenor)

Playing time: 67'

Recording date: July 1997 (Rickmansworth)

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 22/2-209 (Nov/Dec 1998) (Hyperion); 31/6-124 (Jul/Aug 2008) (Helios)

Although the partially integrated Propers-Ordinary setting for his mass was at one time considered enigmatic, it is now taken as more representative of the style of 1420s, and of course finds a later match in Dufay's similar Missa Sancti Anthonii de Padua.

This ensemble's previous recording of the latter mass:

Dufay: Music for St. Anthony of Padua

Binchois Consort - Andrew Kirkman
Hyperion 66854

And that of another related mass:

Dufay: Mass for St. Anthony Abbot / Binchois: Motets

The Binchois Consort - Andrew Kirkman
Hyperion 67474

Other recordings of the present mass:

Dufay: Missa Sancti Iacobi

Cappella Pratensis - Rebecca Stewart
Ricercar 233482

Dufay: Missa Sancti Jacobi

La Reverdie
Arcana 342

Dufay: Missa Sancti Jacobi, Missa Se la face ay pale, etc.

Capella Cordina - Alejandro Planchart
Lyrichord 8013 (2 CDs)

The next recordings by the present ensemble:

A Marriage of England and Burgundy

Binchois Consort - Andrew Kirkman
Hyperion 67129

Josquin and his contemporaries

Binchois Consort - Andrew Kirkman
Hyperion 67183

Busnois: Missa L'homme armé / Domarto: Missa Spiritus almus

Binchois Consort - Andrew Kirkman
Hyperion 67319

Dufay: Missa "Puisque je vis" / Motets

Binchois Consort - Andrew Kirkman
Hyperion 67368

Dufay & the Court of Savoy

Binchois Consort - Andrew Kirkman
Hyperion 67715

Music for Henry V and the House of Lancaster

The English Cyclic Mass "Quem malignus spiritus" and Ceremonial Motets of Fifteenth Century Princely Chapels
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Hyperion 67868

Music for the 100 Years' War

Binchois Consort - Andrew Kirkman
Hyperion 68170

The Lily & the Rose

Binchois Consort - Andrew Kirkman
Hyperion 68228

Music for Saint Katherine of Alexandria

Binchois Consort - Andrew Kirkman
Hyperion 68274

Music for the King of Scots

Inside the Pleasure Palace of James IV
Binchois Consort - Andrew Kirkman
Hyperion 68333

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