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

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Details

Composer
MACHAUT, GUILLAUME DE
Artist
Diabolus In Musica, Guerber
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Aug 24, 2018
Catalog #
ALPHA351
UPC
3760014193514

About

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.

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 Introit: Rorate celi de super 03:49
    Track
    1
    Title
    Introit: Rorate celi de super
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Guillaume de Machaut
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber
  2. 2 Kyrie 07:41
    Track
    2
    Title
    Kyrie
    Duration
    07:41
    Composer
    Guillaume de Machaut
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber
  3. 3 Gloria 05:52
    Track
    3
    Title
    Gloria
    Duration
    05:52
    Composer
    Guillaume de Machaut
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber
  4. 4 Graduel: Qui sedes domine 03:33
    Track
    4
    Title
    Graduel: Qui sedes domine
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Guillaume de Machaut
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber
  5. 5 Alleluia: Ostende nobis domine 02:39
    Track
    5
    Title
    Alleluia: Ostende nobis domine
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    Guillaume de Machaut
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber
  6. 6 Sequence: Ave Maria gratia plena 03:38
    Track
    6
    Title
    Sequence: Ave Maria gratia plena
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Guillaume de Machaut
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber
  7. 7 Credo 07:41
    Track
    7
    Title
    Credo
    Duration
    07:41
    Composer
    Guillaume de Machaut
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber
  8. 8 Rex Karole - Leticie - Contratenor - Virgo prius 04:16
    Track
    8
    Title
    Rex Karole - Leticie - Contratenor - Virgo prius
    Duration
    04:16
    Composer
    Philippe Royllart
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber
  9. 9 Messe de Nostre Dame: Offertoire: Ave Maria gratia plena 02:08
    Track
    9
    Title
    Messe de Nostre Dame: Offertoire: Ave Maria gratia plena
    Duration
    02:08
    Composer
    Guillaume de Machaut
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber
  10. 10 A vous Vierge - Ad te Virgo - Regnum Mundi 02:20
    Track
    10
    Title
    A vous Vierge - Ad te Virgo - Regnum Mundi
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Anonymous
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber
  11. 11 Preface 02:01
    Track
    11
    Title
    Preface
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Guillaume de Machaut
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber
  12. 12 Sanctus 04:19
    Track
    12
    Title
    Sanctus
    Duration
    04:19
    Composer
    Guillaume de Machaut
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber
  13. 13 Agnus Dei 03:38
    Track
    13
    Title
    Agnus Dei
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Guillaume de Machaut
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber
  14. 14 Communion: Ecce Virgo concipiet 02:17
    Track
    14
    Title
    Communion: Ecce Virgo concipiet
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    Guillaume de Machaut
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber
  15. 15 Zolomina - Nazarea - Ave Maria 03:04
    Track
    15
    Title
    Zolomina - Nazarea - Ave Maria
    Duration
    03:04
    Composer
    Anonymous
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber
  16. 16 Messe de Nostre Dame: Ite missa est 01:50
    Track
    16
    Title
    Messe de Nostre Dame: Ite missa est
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    Guillaume de Machaut
    Ensemble
    Diabolus in Musica
    Conductor
    Antoine Guerber