Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame /Ensemble Gilles Binchois ? Vellard
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2000-03-01
Music Label: Cantus
Soundtracks:
- Kyrie Eleyson
- Gloria In Excelsis Deo
- Credo In Unum Deum
- Sanctus & Benedictus
- Agnus Dei
- Ite Missa Est
Music reviews of Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame /Ensemble Gilles Binchois ? Vellard
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Rating: 5 Stars
The performance of Messe de Nostre Dame by Ensemble Gilles Binchois is a true classic and it is fortunate that the label Cantus has reissued it. However is it unfortunate that Amazon has registred it two times; this seems to happen sometimes. If you search Amazon: B00004TC4U you will - November 2005 - find several offers for sale.
After writing this review, the situation has become the opposite...
Description of Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame /Ensemble Gilles Binchois ? Vellard
Machaut's Messe de Nostre Dame (Mass of Our Lady) is the oldest known Mass cycle by a single, named composer, so it has a permanent place in music history courses and probably has been recorded more than any other 14th-century work. This particular version has a history of its own, having quickly become a legend among lovers of medieval music. The French label Harmonic Records made this recording in 1990, and released it the following year to widespread acclaim--then went out of business shortly thereafter. Naturally, the disc became hard to find and much sought-after: sightings were actually posted on the Internet as if the disc were a rare songbird. Happily, the Spanish label Cantus has acquired the rights to Harmonic's old catalogue and made this marvelous performance available once again. The Ensemble Gilles Binchois (which, in 1990, included a young countertenor named Andreas Scholl) has incorporated Machaut's setting of the Mass Ordinary into a complete Mass liturgy (including brief prayers and intoned Scripture readings) for the Feast of the Assumption; the spare beauty of the flowing plainchant that's specific to this service contrasts nicely with the daring harmonies and intricately interlocking rhythms of Machaut's groundbreaking music. Many performances of the Messe de Nostre Dame make much--too much--of those rhythms, and bang them out in a near frenzy; Dominique Vellard and his ensemble take a meditative approach that seems more in keeping with the work's purpose as part of an act of worship. Pretty much everything about this performance is exemplary--thank goodness (and Cantus) that a worldwide search for a copy of it is no longer necessary. --Matthew WestphalGeneral CDs
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