Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame; Songs from Le Voir Dit

Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame; Songs from Le Voir Dit

Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame; Songs from Le Voir Dit
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Composer: Guillaume de Machaut
Performer: Oxford Camerata
Performer: Robin Blaze
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-12-17
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
  1. La Messe de Nostre Dame: Kyrie
  2. La Messe de Nostre Dame: Gloria
  3. La Messe de Nostre Dame: Credo
  4. La Messe de Nostre Dame: Sanctus
  5. La Messe de Nostre Dame: Agnus Dei
  6. La Messe de Nostre Dame: Ite missa est
  7. Songs From Le Voir Dit: Ballade 32: Plourez dames
  8. Songs From Le Voir Dit: Ballade 33: Nes qu'on porroit
  9. Songs From Le Voir Dit: Rondeau 4: Sans cuer dolens
  10. Songs From Le Voir Dit: Lai 13: Le lay de bonne esperance
  11. Songs From Le Voir Dit: Rondeau 18: Puis qu'en oubli
  12. Songs From Le Voir Dit: Rondeau 17: Dis et sept cinq

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Music Review: Mind blowing Machaut!
Rating: 5 Stars

Last year I did my Masters' dissertation on Mediaeval Scholasticism and discovered this CD at about the same time. I played it softly on my CD player as I walked the 'via dolorosa'. The CD helped me do very well because I feel it has a unique Mediaeval/Renaissance crossover feel that enabled me to internalise what these people were thinking. The plain lines of Gregorian Chant have been replaced with a three harmony glory which darts about the aisles and chapels of Reims Cathedral, slowing and speeding, lowering and soaring and totally gripping with its harmonic complexities. If there is a summation of the glories of the late 14th century it would be Aquinas' Realism, synthesised by Scotus and finally brought through to the nominalism of William of Ockham, the writings of Dante, Petrarch, Boccacio and Chaucer and this wonderful music. This is not simple rustic music of the home spun English at Crecy. This is the musical depiction of French civilization at its zenith, with its famous manuscripts like the Bible of Jean de Papelou it the Hours of Jeanne D'Evreux. The Romanesque style with its lapis lazuli blues and its idealising of courtly love in scenes that show this earth and the next are the nearest we have to visualisation of this absolute music. I see Decorated Gothic Stain Glass Windows and the most intricate Flying Buttresses which are a silent witness to this music which tantalisingly stands in the changing of worlds. The Black Death was only twelve years away and the old order would be challenged in ten more by uprisings in France and the Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381. The ancien regime would hold on to power but the rediscovery of the ideas of Greece and Rome would change the West's ideas about itself for ever. The New World would crystalize all this but that is in the future. This CD portrays this mediaeval world which fascinates us today with its peculiar mixture of beauty and barbarism. Great value and brilliant at any price with 77 minutes of beatifully written and performed music.
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