Performers: Jonathan Biran, Noël Bisson, Melanie Frost, Alan Baker, Mark DeWitt, Perry Cook, Kevin Moll, Douglas Wyatt
Playing time: 60'
Recording date: 1992
Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 18/1- (September/October 1994)
This is a recording of Ockeghem's two masses for three voices, neither mass using a cantus firmus. The Missa Sine nomine is in the older style of three-part counterpoint expanded rigorously from a two-part framework (similar to the contemporary chanson), while the Missa Quinti toni has a more unified (and luminous) texture. These two mass, despite being somewhat old-fashioned in the choice of three voices, are among Ockeghem's most interesting and original compositions.
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Todd M. McComb