Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame

Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
Diabolus in Musica - Antoine Guerber, dir.
Alpha 132 [CD]
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Contents:

    Gregorian, Reims, Bibliothèque Municipale no 24
  1. Introït: Rorate celi de super

    2. Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
  2. Kyrie
  3. Gloria

    4. Gregorian, Reims, Bibliothèque Municipale no 24
  4. Gradual: Qui sedes Domine
  5. Alleluia: Ostende nobis Domine
  6. Sequence: Ave Maria gratia plena

    7. Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
  7. Credo

    8. Philippe Royllart, MS Chantilly, Muséee Condé ms 1047
  8. Motet: Rex Karole / Leticie / Contratenor / Virgo prius

    9. Gregorian, Reims, Bibliothèque Municipale no 24
  9. Offertory: Ave Maria gratia plena

    10. Anon., MS Ivrea, Ivrea, Biblioteca Capitolare
  10. Motet: A vous Vierge / Ad te Virgo / Regnun Mundi

    11. Mass, ordinary
  11. Preface

    12. Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
  12. Sanctus
  13. Agnus Dei

    14. Gregorian, Reims, Bibliothèque Municipale no 24
  14. Communion: Ecce Virgo concipiet

    15. Anon., MS Ivrea, Ivrea, Biblioteca Capitolare
  15. Motet: Zolomina / Nazarea / Ave Maria

    16. Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
  16. Ite missa est

Performers:
Diabolus in Musica
Raphaël Boulay (tenor), Olivier Germond (tenor), Eric Lavoipierre (baritone), Jean-Paul Rigaud (baritone), Geoffroy Buffière (baritone/bass), Christophe Grapperon (baritone/bass), Emmanuel Vistorky (baritone/bass), Philippe Roche (bass)
Antoine Guerber, dir.

Playing time: 60' 55"

Recording site and date:
Abbaye de Fontevraud, France [10/2007];
Rel.: 2008, 2018

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 563-104 (November 2008)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 33/3-198 (January / February 2010)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 86/1043-90 (April 2009)

Comments:
Information from CD.

Pierre-F. Roberge

A small selection of some other interesting & significant recordings with some similar characteristics:

Messe de Notre Dame de Guillaume de Machaut
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Harmonic 8931
Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame
Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi 901590
Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame
Clemencic Consort / Ensemble Nova / Polifonica Lucchese e Capella Santa Cecilia - René Clemencic
Arte Nova 85289
Messe de Nostre Dame
Machaut / Dufay - 5 Sacred Songs
Pro Musica Antiqua - Safford Cape
Archiv Codex Series 453 162

For more recordings, see the discography prepared by Pierre Roberge.

An earlier recording by the present ensemble, including some similar music:

Missa Magna
Messe à la chapelle papale d'Avignon, XIVe siècle
Diabolus in Musica - Antoine Guerber
Studio SM 2819

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