Dufay: Se la Face ay Pale
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Import
CD Release Date: 1996-07-16
Music Label: Virgin
Soundtracks:
- Gloria Ad Modum Tubae
- Chanson 'Se La Face Ay Pale'/Original Three-Part Version/Buxheimer Orgelbuch:Two Keyboard...
- Missa 'Se La Face Ay Pale': Kyrie
- Missa 'Se La Face Ay Pale': Gloria
- Missa 'Se La Face Ay Pale': Credo
- Missa 'Se La Face Ay Pale': Sanctus
- Missa 'Se La Face Ay Pale': Angus Dei
Music reviews of Dufay: Se la Face ay Pale
Music Review: A short, but inspired CD of Early Music. Buy It
Rating: 5 Stars
'Se la face ay pale' by Guillaume Dufay, as performed by David Munrow directing the Early Music Consort of London is a revelation, and a revel for the lover of Early Music. One can become quite bored with the sameness of many recordings of early liturgical music, so my ears really perked up as I got into the main work on this recording.
As an amateur listener, the first thing I noticed was the greater variety of vocal and instrumental contributions, all matched up so perfectly that one wishes there were more local groups performing this music out here in the hinterlands.
The recording is a bit short by modern CD standards, but the combination of Munrow and Dufay make a great little gem.
Description of Dufay: Se la Face ay Pale
The opening track of this extraordinary recording will surprise anyone whose impression of 15th-century religious music is defined by dark monasteries and hooded monks. This "Gloria ad modum tubae" for two countertenors and two sackbuts (early relatives of the trombone)--and the following secular chanson, "Se la face ay pale"--has enough melodic spark and rhythmic oomph to yank even the most jaded 20th-century ears happily back 400 years and leave them anxiously waiting for more. The "more" that follows is a sensitive, careful, and uncommonly expressive performance of the Mass for which Guillaume Dufay is primarily known today. As sung by the all-male ensemble-countertenors, tenors, and baritones-with occasional instrumental accompaniment, the music seems to emerge from an ancient stillness to fill the revered space of some Gothic cathedral. In fact, this is a studio recording made in the early 1970s. Thankfully, and properly, it has remained in the catalog, for it is still the best version of this essential early music masterpiece. --David VernierGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( D ) > Dufay, Guillaume
- Forms & Genres > Ballads
- Historical Periods > Early Music > Vocal & Song
- Renaissance (c.1450-1600) > Sacred & Religious
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Renaissance (c.1450-1600)
- Vocal Non-Opera > Masses
- Dufay, Guillaume - Works by Dufay
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