Fri, 01 Apr 2005
Binchois, Dufay
Dufay (att), Mass for St. Anthony Abbot
Binchois, Motets and Mass movements
The Binchois Consort
Andrew Kirkman
LP, Hyperion
We are in the 15th century, and before the Reformation. Guillaume
Dufay lived approximately between 1397 and 1474 and Gilles Binchois
between 1400 and 1460.
This recording, which was partially sponsored by the Mason Gross
School of the Arts at Rutgers (Andrew Kirkman is a professor there),
gives us a ten movement plenary mass, and from Binchois, the only
surviving isorhythmic motet as well another motet and three mass
movements; a Kyrie, Sanctus, and Agnes Dei.
They are all beautiful works, some of which are bound together
by St. Anthony, and all of them by the proximity of history.
The performance is better than able and the recording first class.
There are also useful note and the words are included in English
and Latin.
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