Originally released in 1993, this exceptional recording of Johannes Ockeghem's Requiem has been reissued in Harmonia Mundi's Musique d'abord line with a change of packaging and a reduction of price. This Requiem is a beautiful example of the plainchant mass and is the earliest surviving polyphonic Mass for the Dead. It was most likely written in ...
The anonymous Flemish Messe de Tournai, compiled somewhere between 1325 and 1330, is the oldest complete polyphonic mass in existence. Intended for performance in the Cathedral Notre Dame in the Belgian city of Tournai, the Messe de Tournai is preserved in a manuscript otherwise consisting of monophonic chant. Drawing from the monophonic sections ...
This recording of Ensemble Organum in Guillaume de Machaut's Messe de Notre-Dame -- a pivotal piece, as it is the earliest complete polyphonic mass setting by a named Western composer of prominence -- entered the field as one of the most controversial early music recordings ever. Marcel Pérès and his group decided to vocally ornament the music, a ...
Out with the old, in with the new: this familiar adage can well apply to what happened to so-called Old Roman chant when the Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy got underway in 1305; the seat of the Holy Roman Empire moved from Rome to Avignon for a period of 72 years. During this time, a reform in clerical singing that had been making its ...
The repertoire recorded here largely has the sound of medieval plainchant, but it was in fact newly composed in eighteenth century France at the Cathedral of Auxterre. The bishop of Auxterre was determined to create a body of music specific to French liturgical traditions rather than simply following Roman models, and this CD draws on that ...
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