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Attempting to cram the history of western music, 700 years of it, onto two CDs, and perform it only on piano by one pianist, may
This recording features Marian settings from various composers ranging from the 14th to the 18th centuries. The two largest pieces are Machaut’s Messe de Nostre
Guillaume Dufay’s Missa se la face ay pale is one of the earliest examples of a Mass being thematically based on the melody of a
It’s a rare thing to find more than cursory attention paid to Gilles Binchois on recordings, and then it’s mostly his chansons or instrumental pieces
Whether or not the Missa Puisque je vis was in fact written by Guillaume Dufay (a matter of some serious debate), its sublime sonorities and
Although the music of Dufay is no stranger to CD–groups such as Pomerium, the Binchois Consort, Gothic Voices, and Orlando Consort all have devoted discs
Modern ears have been subjected to a sound world so complex and chaotic–and just plain noisy–that it’s impossible for us now to really appreciate the
