Dufay: Complete Isorhythmic motets

Machaut: 7 Isorhythmic sacred motets / Dufay: Complete Isorhythmic motets, 7 Cantilena motets
Helga Weber Ensemble
Renaissance der Renaissance 3.108 (3 CDs)
Renaissance der Renaissance 3.108 MC (3 Cass.)

Contents:

  1. Machaut: Christe, qui lux ; à 4 (2 voices, 2 vielles, 2 recorders, 2 shawms, percussion)
  2. Machaut: Tu, qui gregem ; à 4 (2 voices, recorder, 2 shawms, trombone, percussion)
  3. Machaut: Bone Pastor Guillerme ; à 3 (2 voices, 2 shawms, trombone, percussion)
  4. Machaut: Fons tocius superbie ; à 3 (2 voices, crumhorn, percussion)
  5. Machaut: Hoquetus David ; à 3 (2 shawms, trombone, percussion)
  6. Machaut: Martyrum gemma, latria ; à 3 (2 voices, 2 recorders, shawm, percussion)
  7. Machaut: Felix virgo, mater Christi ; à 4 (2 voices, shawm, 2 vielles, 2 recorders, trombone, percussion)
  8. Dufay: Vasilissa, ergo gaude ; isorhythmic à 4 (2 voices, 2 vielles, 2 shawms)
  9. Dufay: Apostolo glorioso ; isorhythmic à 5 - v.1 (5 voices, 4 shawms, trombone, vielle, recorder, percussion)
    Dufay: Apostolo glorioso - v.2 (4 voices, 4 shawms, trombone, vielle, recorder, percussion)
  10. Dufay: O beate Sebastiane ; à 3 - v.1 (3 voices)
    Dufay: O beate Sebastiane - v.2 (3 vielles)
  11. Dufay: O sancte Sebastiane ; isorhythmic à 4 (3 voices, 2 vielles, 4 recorders, shawm, trombone)
  12. Chant: Quoniam tribulatio (item 1)
  13. Chant: Videns Jacob vestimenta Joseph (item 4)
  14. Chant: Alleluia. Solemnitas gloriose virginis Marie (item 5)
  15. Chant: Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes (item 7)
  16. Chant: Concupivit rex decorem tuum (item 8)
  17. Chant: Andreas Christi famulus (item 9)

  1. Dufay: O gemma, lux et speculum ; isorhythmic à 4 (2 voices, vielle, trombone, 2 shawms, recorder)
  2. Dufay: Rite majorem Iacobum ; isorhythmic à 4 (2 voices, 2 vielles, 2 shawms, trombone)
  3. Dufay: Flos florum ; à 3 (3 voices, 2 vielles)
  4. Dufay: Ave Virgo ; à 3 - v.1 (voice, recorder, vielle)
    Dufay: Ave Virgo - v.2 (2 voices, viol)
  5. Dufay: Balsamus et munda cera ; isorhythmic à 4 (2 voices, 2 recorders, 2 vielles, trombone, shawm)
  6. Dufay: Inclita stella maris ; canonic à 4 (2 voices, 4 recorders, 2 viols)
  7. Dufay: Mirandas parit ; à 3 (3 voices, 2 recorders, vielle)
  8. Dufay: Salve, flos Tusce gentis ; isorhythmic à 4 (2 voices, 2 viols, trombone, shawm)
  9. Dufay: Nuper rosarum flores ; isorhythmic à 4 (6 voices, trombone, shawm, percussion)
  10. Chant: Beatus Nicolaus (item 1)
  11. Chant: Isti sunt agni novelli (item 5)
  12. Chant: Circumdederunt me (item 8)
  13. Chant: Terribilis est locus iste (item 9)

  1. Dufay: Supremum est mortalibus bonus ; isorhythmic à 3 (5 voices, trombone, percussion)
  2. Dufay: Ecclesie militantis ; isorhythmic à 5 (3 voices, 3 vielles, 3 recorders, trombone, shawm, percussion)
  3. Dufay: Magnanime gentis ; isorhythmic à 3 (5 voices, 2 shawms, trombone, percussion)
  4. Dufay: O proles Yspanie ; à 4 (4 voices, 3 vielles)
  5. Dufay: O gloriose tyro ; isorhythmic à 4 (3 voices, 4 recorders, 2 vielle, trombone)
  6. Dufay: Fulgens iubar ecclesie Dei ; isorhythmic à 4 (2 voices, trombone, 2 vielles, 2 recorders, shawm)
  7. Dufay: Alma redemptoris mater ; à 3 (3 voices, shawm, trombone)
  8. Dufay: Moribus et genere ; isorhythmic à 4 (2 voices, viol, trombone, shawm, recorders, vielles)
  9. Chant: Isti sunt duae olivae (item 1)
  10. Chant: Ecce nomen / Gabriel (item 2)
  11. Chant: Hec est very fraternitas (item 3)
  12. Chant: Iste sanctus (item 5)
  13. Chant: Virgo post partum (item 6)
  14. Chant: Virgo est electus (item 8)

Performers: David Cordier (alto), Paul Gerhardt Adam (alto, vielle), Kai Wessel (alto), Wilfried Jochens (chant, tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Knut Schoch (tenor), Birgit Siefer-Bahr (soprano shawm, recorders), Katharina Arfken (tenor shawm), Cornelia Hampel (alto shawm, recorders), Regina Sanders (alto shawm, recorders), Marianne Richert Pfau (tenor shawm, recorders, musicology), Anke Dennert (recorders, crumhorn), Yuji Fujimoto (alto and tenor trombones), Barbara Hofmann (vielle, tenor viol), Simone Eckert (vielle, alto viol), Frank Hiesler (percussion), Helga Weber (direction)

Playing time: 168'

Recording date: October 1990, January 1991 (Hamburg)

The focus of this set is Dufay's isorhythmic motets, with those of Machaut, as well as some non-isorhythmic motets of Dufay, included as context. Some motets are performed in more than one version (noted as v.1, etc.) CD3#5 is considered a "doubtful" work by Dufay. As noted in the contents, this set also includes the Gregorian chants on which the motets are based, when appropriate. The items to which they refer are noted parenthetically. The liner notes are superlative, featuring texts with translations, facsimiles of originals, historical notes, etc. They total 180 pages. The production of this recording was connected with the publication of new scholarly editions for these compositions.

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Todd M. McComb