Machaut: Les Motets
Musica Nova
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Re-issue of the Month
everything on these discs gives clear evidence of the most scrupulous preparation, a constant search for the intrinsic features of each individual piece. Not only that but the recorded sound...
Machaut: Les Motets
Musica Nova
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Re-issue of the Month
everything on these discs gives clear evidence of the most scrupulous preparation, a constant search for the intrinsic features of each individual piece. Not only that but the recorded sound...
About
Complete Motets of Machaut (re-release) Since the beauty, richness and diversity of such an oeuvre made it impossible to choose amongst the 23 motets by the Canon of Reims, the Musica Nova ensemble decided to embark on the adventure of a complete recording.
Two years of work and research were necessary for putting this programme together, as the musicians strove for an in-depth approach to each motet in terms of both style and an instrumentation made possible by the very structure of the ensemble.
This disc, which had a resounding critical success when first released, offers the first complete translation in modern French of Guillaume de Machaut's motets.
An indispensable set!
Contents and tracklist
- Ensemble Musica Nova
- Ensemble Musica Nova
- Ensemble Musica Nova
- Ensemble Musica Nova
- Ensemble Musica Nova
- Ensemble Musica Nova
- Ensemble Musica Nova
Machaut:
Motet No. 15: Vidi dominus / Faus samblant m'a deceü / Amours qui ha le pouvoir
Work length2:15
- Ensemble Musica Nova
- Ensemble Musica Nova
- Ensemble Musica Nova
- Ensemble Musica Nova
Machaut:
Motet No. 7: Ego moriar pro te / Lasse! Je suis en aventure / j'ai tant mon cuer
Work length3:21
- Ensemble Musica Nova
Machaut:
Motet No. 20: Je ne suis mie certeins / Biauté parée de valour / Trop plus est bele
Work length1:44
- Ensemble Musica Nova
Machaut:
Motet No. 17: Super omnes speciosa / O series summe rata! / Quant vraie Amour (Instrumental)
Work length2:12
- Ensemble Musica Nova
Machaut:
Motet No. 21: Tribulatio proxima est et non est qui adjuvet / Veni creator spriritus
Work length4:28
- Ensemble Musica Nova
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineAwards Issue 2011Re-issue of the Month
Awards Issue 2011
everything on these discs gives clear evidence of the most scrupulous preparation, a constant search for the intrinsic features of each individual piece. Not only that but the recorded sound is magically clear: every detail is easily heard. That is of course partly a function of the singing, astonishingly clean and sharply focused, though with an energy and musicianship that breathe real life into each piece.
