Dufay: Mass for St Anthony Abbot / Binchois: Motets

Dufay: Mass for St Anthony Abbot / Binchois: Motets
The Binchois Consort - Andrew Kirkman, cond.
Hyperion CDA 67474 [CD]

Contents:

    Guillaume Dufay (attr.): Mass for St Anthony Abbot
  1. Introit Scitote quoniam mirificavit
  2. Kyrie
  3. Gloria
  4. Gradual Thronus eius sicut sol
  5. Alleluia with verse Vox de caelo
  6. Credo
  7. Offertory Inclito Anthonio Spiritus sanctus dixit
  8. Sanctus
  9. Agnus Dei

  10. Anon.
  11. Communio Orabat Dei famulus

  12. Gilles Binchois
  13. Motet: Domitor Hectoris
  14. Kyrie
  15. Sanctus
  16. Agnus Dei
  17. Motet: Nove cantum melodie

Performers:
The Binchois Consort [Mark Chambers (alto), William Towers (alto), Edwin Simpson (tenor), Nick Todd (tenor), Matthew Vine (tenor), Christopher Watson (tenor)] - Andrew Kirkman, cond.

Playing time: 70' 54"

Recording site and date:
All Saints Church, Tooting, London [01/2004];
Rel.: 2005

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 526-97 (june 2005)
Early Music America (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Goldberg (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
Information from owned CD.
This mass is only attributed to Dufay, although we know that he composed such a mass (the manuscript, contained in his will, has not survived).
He also wrote another mass in honour of St Anthony "Mass for St Anthony of Padua" (already recorded by The Binchois Consort: Hyperion CDA 66854). It was found in one of the Trent manuscripts, but this anonymous mass, in honour of St Anthony "of Vienne" or "of the Viennois" was found in another Trent manuscript, and bears a stylistic resemblance to Dufay's other works.
I was not able to find trace of a previous recording of this mass.
The final track is Binchois' only surviving isorhythmic motet, partially reconstructed for this recording.

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Pierre-F. Roberge