Special offer. Dufay - Music for St James the Greater
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
This disc still shines in the firmament of Dufay recordings. Deftly-shaped phrases, balanced between driving momentum and tranquillity, and decisiveness of interpretation justify this disc's...
Special offer. Dufay - Music for St James the Greater
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
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This disc still shines in the firmament of Dufay recordings. Deftly-shaped phrases, balanced between driving momentum and tranquillity, and decisiveness of interpretation justify this disc's...
About
St James the Greater, Apostle of Christ, foster son of the Virgin Mary, brother of St John the Evangelist, and indelibly—if somewhat perplexingly— associated with Compostela, became the focus of many composers; after all, anyone who was anyone in the Middle Ages (including Chaucer’s Wife of Bath) would make a pilgrimage to St James’s shrine in Spain at some point in their life. The exact background to Dufay’s Mass is as yet unknown but it is an enormous work (forty minutes plus) of great passion.
Also included on this disc are three motets composed around the same time as the Mass, and a Gloria/Credo pairing, remarkable for up-beat, if irreverent, interpolations of snippets from Italian and French popular songs during the ‘Amens’.
Contents and tracklist
- Robin Tyson (countertenor), Mark Chambers (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Fergus McLusky (countertenor), Edwin Simpson (tenor), David Gould (countertenor), Christopher Watson (tenor), Andrew Carwood (tenor)
- The Binchois Consort
- Andrew Kirkman
- Recorded: 1997-07-18
- Recording Venue: Rickmansworth Masonic School Chapel
- Andrew Carwood (tenor), Edwin Simpson (tenor), Robin Tyson (countertenor), Christopher Watson (tenor), David Gould (countertenor), Fergus McLusky (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Mark Chambers (countertenor)
- The Binchois Consort
- Andrew Kirkman
- Recorded: 1997-07-18
- Recording Venue: Rickmansworth Masonic School Chapel
- Andrew Carwood (tenor), Edwin Simpson (tenor), Robin Tyson (countertenor), Christopher Watson (tenor), David Gould (countertenor), Fergus McLusky (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Mark Chambers (countertenor)
- The Binchois Consort
- Andrew Kirkman
- Recorded: 1997-07-18
- Recording Venue: Rickmansworth Masonic School Chapel
- Andrew Carwood (tenor), Edwin Simpson (tenor), Robin Tyson (countertenor), Christopher Watson (tenor), David Gould (countertenor), Fergus McLusky (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Mark Chambers (countertenor)
- The Binchois Consort
- Andrew Kirkman
- Recorded: 1997-07-18
- Recording Venue: Rickmansworth Masonic School Chapel
- Andrew Carwood (tenor), Edwin Simpson (tenor), Robin Tyson (countertenor), Christopher Watson (tenor), David Gould (countertenor), Fergus McLusky (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Mark Chambers (countertenor)
- The Binchois Consort
- Andrew Kirkman
- Recorded: 1997-07-18
- Recording Venue: Rickmansworth Masonic School Chapel
Awards and reviews
July 2008
This disc still shines in the firmament of Dufay recordings. Deftly-shaped phrases, balanced between driving momentum and tranquillity, and decisiveness of interpretation justify this disc's re-issue.
This is Dufay as I have always wanted to hear him. [It] is as close to a perfect Dufay CD as I have ever heard … so utterly compelling is this recording that I can imagine it acquiring cult status
