Josquin Missa De beata Virgine

Josquin: Missa De beata Virgine / Motets à la Vierge
A Sei Voci - Bernard Fabre-Garrus
Astrée 8560

Contents:

    Missa De beata Virgine

  1. Introït - Salve sancta (chant; 3 voices)

    2. Kyrie
  2. Kyrie eleison (tutti = 11 voices)
  3. Christe eleison (8 voices)
  4. Kyrie eleison (tutti)

    5. Gloria
  5. Plainchant (solo voice)
    Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax (tutti)
  6. Qui tollis peccata mundi (tutti)
  7. Cum Sancto Spiritus in glorio Dei Patris (tutti)

    8. Credo
  8. Plainchant (solo voice)
    Patrem omnipotentem (tutti)
  9. Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio (tutti)
  10. Et in Spiritum Sanctum (tutti)
  11. Offertoire - Ave Maria gratia (chant; 4 voices)

    12. Sanctus
  12. Sanctus (tutti)
  13. Pleni sunt caeli (tutti)
  14. Hosanna in excelsis (tutti)

    15. Benedictus
  15. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini (8 voices)
  16. Hosanna in excelsis (tutti)

    17. Agnus Dei
  17. Agnus Dei I (tutti)
  18. Agnus Dei II (7 voices)
  19. Agnus Dei III (tutti)

    20. Motets à la Vierge

    O Virgo prudentissima
  20. Prima pars (9 voices)
  21. Secunda pars (9 voices)

    22. Stabat Mater dolorosa
  22. Prima pars (8 voices)
  23. Secunda pars (8 voices)
  24. Ave Maria, gratia plena (6 voices)

    25. Inviolata, integra est casta es Maria
  25. Prima pars (6 voices)
  26. Secunda pars (6 voices)
  27. Tertia pars (6 voices)

    28. Tu solus qui facis mirabilia
  28. Prima pars (4 voices)
  29. Secunda pars (4 voices)

Performers: Catherine Padaut (soprano), Catherine Jousselin (mezzo-soprano), Raoul Le Chenadec (countertenor), Jean-Louis Comoretto (countertenor), Thierry Bréhu (tenor), Jean-François Chiama (tenor), Jean-Marie Puissant (tenor), James Gowings (baritone), Jean-Louis Georgel (baritone), Yves Bergé (bass), Bernard Fabre-Garrus (bass)

Playing time: 59'

Recording date: January 1995

Although this was one of Josquin's most highly regarded masses, leading publications of his music and appearing in more manuscripts than any other, it appears not to have been composed originally as a cycle. It is also the only Josquin mass not to be overwhelmingly in 4 voices, already moving to 5 voices with the Credo.

The "Ave Maria" is a 6-part elaboration by an anonymous composer of Josquin's 4-part original.

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 19/5- (may/june 1996)

A Sei Voci's previous recording of this mass:

L'Art Sacre de Josquin Des Pres
A Sei Voci
Forlane 16552

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Todd M. McComb