Machaut: Mass
- Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame
- w/ Le Lai de la Fonteinne & Ma fin est mon commencement
Hilliard Ensemble - Paul Hillier
Hyperion KA 66 358 [Cass,]
Hyperion CDA 66 358 [CD]
Contents:
Messe de Notre Dame à 4
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Credo
- Sanctus & Benedictus
- Agnus Dei
- Ite missa est
Le Lai de la Fonteinne
- Je ne cesse de prier
- Et ou porroit on querir
- C'est celle qui par ordonnance
- Ces trois un a po de peinne
- Et qui de ceste eaue prendroit
- Mais ceste trinité
- De la duis le Pere nomme
- Et pour ce di que cil troy
- Pour ce te pri
- Mais de tel confort
- He! fonteinne de concorde
- Pour laver et nettoier
- Rondeau: Ma fin est mon commencement
Performers: David James, Ashley Stafford, Rogers Covey-Crump, John
Potter, Mark Padmore, Leigh Nixon, Paul Hillier, Michael George
Playing time: 54'
Recording date: March 1987 & February 1989
This is an all-male vocal performance, in typical Hilliard style.
The Mass is performed very briskly. The Lai unusually alternates
two-part polyphony with the usual monophony. Finally, "Ma
fin..." is Machaut's famous rondeau in the form of a
palindrome.
The present ensemble's next Machaut recording:
- Machaut: Motets
- Hilliard Ensemble
ECM "New Series" 1823
A couple of other recordings of similar constitution:
- Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame / Songs from Le Voir Dit
- Oxford Camerata - Jeremy Summerly
Naxos 8.553833
- Machaut: La Messe Nostre-Dame et L'amour courtois
- Ars Antiqua de Paris - Michel Sanvoisin
Edelweiss 1021
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Todd M. McComb