Monteverdi: Masses

Monteverdi: Missa In illo tempore / Messa a quattro voci
Ensemble Vocal Européen de la Chapelle Royale - Philippe Herreweghe
Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1355 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi HMC 40 1355 [Cass.]
Harmonia Mundi "Edition Herreweghe" HMX 298 1355 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1355 [CD]

Contents:

    Claudio Monteverdi: Messa a quattro voci da cappella
  1. Kyrie
  2. Gloria
  3. Credo
  4. Sanctus
  5. Benedictus
  6. Agnus Dei

    7. Claudio Monteverdi
  7. Adoramus a sei voci

    8. Claudio Monteverdi: Missa da cappella a sei voci In illo tempore
  8. Kyrie
  9. Gloria
  10. Credo
  11. Sanctus
  12. Benedictus
  13. Agnus Dei

Performers: Gundula Anders, Monika Frimmer, Delphine Collot, Rachel Platt, Ellen Van Ham, Dominique Verkinderen, Kai Wessel, Ralf Popken, Betty Van Den Berghe, Simon Berridge, Andreas Schulist, Hervé Lamy, Angus Smith, Renaud Machart, Peter Kooy, Adrian Peacock, Christopher Purves

Playing time: 59'

Recording date: November 1990;
Rel.; 1991 (HMC), 2001 (HMX)

Excerpts:
[4]-[6] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 8016.20 Musique de la Renaissance Music - L'Europe Musicale au XVe et XVIe siècles
[11]-[12] Harmonia Mundi "Century" HMX 290 8170 [CD] A History of Music, vol. 8: Messes et Motets de la Renaissance (1500-1600 / Renaissance Masses and Motets (1500-1600) - Musique sacrée de la Renaissance / Renaissance Sacred Music

Compilation:
Harmonia mundi HMX 290 1413 / 1415 [CDx3] Philippe Herreweghe: portrait d'un artiste
Harmonia mundi HMX 290 8006 [CDx5] Une histoire de la musique baroque

The Missa In illo tempore is based on Gombert's motet of that title. This composition shows Monteverdi's prima prattica skill at traditional counterpoint in its full glory; apparently Monteverdi undertook this composition with great effort. The other mass is a later composition in a simpler declamatory style.

Other mass recordings:

Monteverdi: Missa In illo tempore
Odhecaton - Paolo Da Col
Ricercar 322
Salve Sancta Parens
Monteverdi: Messa a 4 da cappella / Magnificat II a 6 voci
La Stagione Armonica - Sergio Balestracci
Symphonia 00181
Monteverdi: Litanie / Mass a 4 / Magnificat
La Institutioni Harmoniche - Marco Longhini
Nuova Era 7118
Monteverdi Masses
Mass a 4 / Mass In illo tempore
The Sixteen - Harry Christophers
Hyperion 66214
Monteverdi: Mass of Thanksgiving
Taverner Consort, Choir & Players - Andrew Parrott
EMI Reflexe 54886 (2 CDs)
Monteverdi: Missa In illo tempore / Cavalli: Missa pro defunctis
Cantica Symphonia - Giuseppe Maletto
Stradivarius Dulcimer 33665
Monteverdi & Byrd: Masses for 4 voices
Duodena Cantitans - Petr Danek
Supraphon 3328
Monteverdi: Magnificat / Missa da cappella
L'Ensemble de musique sacrée de Québec - Claude Lemieux
EMSQ 2001

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Todd M. McComb