Janequin masses

Janequin: Messes
La Bataille / L'Aveuglé Dieu
Ensemble Clément Janequin - Dominique Visse
Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1536 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi "musique d'abord" HMA 190 1536

Contents:

    Clément Janequin: Messe "La Bataille"
  1. Kyrie
  2. Gloria
  3. Credo
  4. Sanctus
  5. Agnus Dei

  6. Clément Janequin
  7. Motet à quatre voix: Congregati sunt

  8. Clément Janequin: Messe "L'Aveuglé Dieu"
  9. Kyrie
  10. Gloria
  11. Credo
  12. Sanctus
  13. Benedictus
  14. Agnus Dei

Performers: Dominique Visse, Jean-Louis Comoretto (countertenors), Bruno Boterf, Stephan Van Dyck (tenors), Vincent Bouchot, Philippe Cantor (baritones), François Fauché, Marc Busnel (basses), Jean-Pierre Canihac (cornet), Daniel Lassalle, Stéphane Legée, Bernard Fourtet (sackbuts)

Playing time: 50'

Recording date: December 1994;
Rel.: 1995

Excerpts:
[1]-[5] Harmonia Mundi "Solothèque" HMS 92 6012 [CD]
[3]-[4], [6] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 8016.20 Musique de la Renaissance Music - L'Europe Musicale au XVe et XVIe siècles
[3] 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

The recording presents the totality of Janequin's surviving Latin output. The masses are parody masses on his own songs, and are performed with instrumental doubling.

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Todd M. McComb