Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame / Guerber, Diabolus in Musica

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Release Date
August 24, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MACHAUT, GUILLAUME DE
    • PERFORMER
      Diabolus In Musica, Guerber
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 24, 2018
    • UPC
      3760014193514
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA351
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Introit: Rorate celi de super

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber

    2. Kyrie

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber

    3. Gloria

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber

    4. Graduel: Qui sedes domine

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber

    5. Alleluia: Ostende nobis domine

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber

    6. Sequence: Ave Maria gratia plena

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber

    7. Credo

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber

    8. Rex Karole - Leticie - Contratenor - Virgo prius

      Composer: Philippe Royllart

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber

    9. Messe de Nostre Dame: Offertoire: Ave Maria gratia plena

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber

    10. A vous Vierge - Ad te Virgo - Regnum Mundi

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber

    11. Preface

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber

    12. Sanctus

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber

    13. Agnus Dei

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber

    14. Communion: Ecce Virgo concipiet

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber

    15. Zolomina - Nazarea - Ave Maria

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber

    16. Messe de Nostre Dame: Ite missa est

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Diabolus in Musica

      Conductor: Antoine Guerber


Guillaume de Machaut was born around 1300 in the environs of Reims, which at that time was a flourishing royal city with a population of almost 20,000, famous throughout Europe for its textile workshops and trade fairs. Like most cathedrals of Western Europe, Reims is built on the site of an earlier edifice. The Rouelle altar, on the left in the nave, adjacent to the choir screen, was dedicated to the Holy Spirit. But in 1343 a magnificent statue of the Virgin Mary was placed there. In 1341 Archbishop Jean de Vienne established a plainchant Votive Mass for the Virgin, to be performed each week before the Rouelle altar. The Marian Mass was introduced by Guillaume de Machaut and his younger brother Jean as a perpetuation of the archbishop’s wish, and it was for that particular liturgy, which was sung every Saturday throughout the year, that Guillaume wrote his famous polyphonic mass. The Messe de Nostre Dame, as it is called in only one of the five surviving manuscripts, is the first complete preserved polyphonic mass known to be by a single hand. It includes the five movements of the Ordinary plus the four-voice Ite missa est. The Mass is not strictly speaking a unified cycle, but there is nevertheless great coherence in its rhythmic and harmonic languages. The succession of movements shows a broad construction and a harmonious and carefully established stylistic progression, from the Kyrie with its strong harmonic structure to the Agnus Dei with its melodic lyricism.