The Dufay Spectacle: Motets and Chansos

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Guillaume Dufay

Genre:

Vocal

Label: Linn

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 67

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: CKD568

CKD568. The Dufay Spectacle: Motets and Chansos

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Ce jour l'an Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Vasilissa, ergo gaude/Concupivit rex decorum tuum Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Entre vous, gentils amoureux Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Et pour certain Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Je requier a tous amoureux Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Je vous pri/Ma tres douce amie/Tant que mon argent Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Je me complains pitieusement Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Las, que feray? Ne que je devenray? Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
O sancte Sebastiane Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Se la face ay pale Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Se la phase pale Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Vergene bella Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Salve flos Tusce gentis Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Portugaler Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Ecclesie militantis Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Resvelliés vous et faites chiere lye Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Apostolo glorioso Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Mon bien, m'amour et ma maistresse Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Quel fronte signorille Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Estrines moy, je vous estrineray Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Puisque vous estez campieur Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Gothic Voices
Guillaume Dufay, Composer
Back in the 1990s, the highlight of my reviewing year was almost always the arrival of a new CD from Christopher Page and Gothic Voices – not just for their supreme musicianship but also for the originality of the programming and presentation. Then Page withdrew from the group and for the past 20 years their existence has been far more peripheral to the early music scene. What a pleasure, then, to be able to welcome this Dufay recording as matching all the qualities that made Gothic Voices absolute leaders in the field. This time it looks very much as though Julian Podger is the presiding genius; and he has chosen the repertory very well, imagining a celebration at some point late in Dufay’s life and framing the entire proceedings with various versions and fragments of one of his most inspiring early songs, ‘Ce jour de l’an’.

Adding glory to the occasion are five of his motets, presented in what seem to me the most intelligent and musically transparent performances. Here the influence of Andrew Lawrence-King seems important, not just because he plays so many different instruments but because he has the neat idea of adding a 16 foot pitch only at crucial points within the motets: others have done this before but never with the same restraint, intelligence and musical power. One could question some of the choices of instruments here but never the quality of the musical results.

To mention all the glorious details here would break the banks of this review but I cannot avoid mentioning the marvellously experienced singing of Catherine King and her duetting with Steven Harrold: that is seriously classy. And the entire package is beautifully assembled by Linn.

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