Josquin: Missa Ave Maris Stella

Josquin: Missa Ave maris stella / Motets à la Vierge

A Sei Voci - Bernard Fabre-Garrus
Astrée 8507

Contents

Missa Ave Maris Stella

1. Kyrie
2. Gloria
3. Credo
4. Sanctus
5. Benedictus
6. Agnus Dei
7. Ave Maris Stella (Dufay - Josquin)
8. Salve Regina
9. Gaude Virgo Mater Christi
10. Alma Redemptoris Mater / Ave Regina Coelorum

Vultum tuum deprecabuntur

11. Prima pars - Vultum tuum deprecabuntur
12. Secunda pars - Sancta Dei genitrix virgo semper Maria
13. Tertia pars - Intemerata virgo, quae Redemptorum saeculi peperisti
14. Quarta pars - O Maria, nullam gravem possumus habere culpam
15. Quinta pars - Mente tota, tibi supplicamus ut sicut Filio tuo Domino
16. Sexta pars - Ora pro nobis, virgo sine termino
17. Septima pars - Christe Filio Dei mundi qui crimina tollis

Performers: Ensemble A Sei Voci, Bernard Fabre-Garrus dir.
Ruth Holton, Delphine Collot (S), Raoul Le Chenadec, Jean-Louis Comoretto (CT), Thierry Brehu, Hervé Lamy (T), James Gowings (Bar), Bernard Fabre-Garrus (Bar).

Playing time: 63'

Recording date: January 1993

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 17/3- (May/Jun 1994)

This recording presents the Missa Ave Maris Stella, as well as the 3-part motet by Dufay which inspired it (performed here with parts composed by Josquin, as it was sung in Rome ca. 1500), and several other motets, all dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

The Missa Ave Maris stella shows Josquin's ability to adopt the older melodic-contrapuntal style of Dufay with great success. The motets are also among his most exquisite.

Finally, the motet cycle Vultum tuum deprecabuntur is apparently motivated by Milanese practice of the time and is designed to substitute for the mass ordinary. Another recording, making a subtitution of contents based on an apparent misassociation in Petrucci:

Josquin: Motets

Orlando Consort
DG Archiv 463 473

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