Jean Mouton: Missa Tu es Petrus & other works: including the complete eight-part motets

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these pieces are refreshingly airy and transparent. Mouton's exquisite music and the Brabant Ensemble's graceful performances are well-served by Antony Pitts's production...The various strands... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th May 2012
Catalogue No: CDA67933
Label: Hyperion
Length: 66 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

September 2012

Choral & Song Choice

Mouton, J: Nesciens Mater

Work length5:37

$1.10

$1.50

$2.05

The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice

Mouton, J: Ave Maria, gemma virginum

Work length2:26

$1.10

$1.50

$2.05

The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice

Mouton, J: Exsultet coniubilando

Work length4:13

$1.10

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$2.05

The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice

Mouton, J: Verbum bonum et suave

Work length11:08

$1.10

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The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice

Mouton, J: Missa Tu es Petrus

Work length31:02

$5.50

$7.50

$10.25

Alastair Carey (tenor), Helen Ashby (soprano), Kate Ashby (soprano), Emma Ashby (alto)
The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice

I. Kyrie

Track length3:38

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II. Gloria

Track length7:06

$1.10

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III. Credo

Track length9:18

$1.10

$1.50

$2.05

IV. Sanctus and Benedictus

Track length5:52

$1.10

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$2.05

V. Agnus Dei

Track length5:08

$1.10

$1.50

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Mouton, J: Bona vita, bona refectio

Work length6:11

$1.10

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$2.05

The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice

Mouton, J: Factum est silentium

Work length5:30

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$2.05

The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice

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Jean Mouton was a Renaissance French composer and choirmaster, much acknowledged but more rarely recorded, who wrote a body of music that’s both technically inventive and immediately appealing. Here Stephen Rice and The Brabant Ensemble—renowned exponents of sixteenth-century Franco-Flemish repertoire—perform all Mouton’s eight-part music, two four-part motets, and his only five-part Mass setting, the Missa Tu es Petrus. The latter is characterized by light, clear textures and a soaring cantus firmus, while the double-choir Nesciens mater is rightly famous for its ingenious canon. Sheer compositional skill aside, all these works demonstrate Mouton’s vivid and original imagination—one that has the ability to speak directly to our time.

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September 2012

these pieces are refreshingly airy and transparent. Mouton's exquisite music and the Brabant Ensemble's graceful performances are well-served by Antony Pitts's production...The various strands are rendered clear and discrete without detracting from the overall sumptuousness. Highly recommended.

August 2012

The way in which Stephen Rice moulds his musical arguments is uniquely detailed and quietly thoughtful, aided at least in part by the fact that this respected musicologist works from his own specially produced editions...the sound, which is at its most crystalline in one-to-a-part performance...never hardens into relentlessness but stays luminously beautiful throughout. The blend of the ensemble is too warm for that

June 2012

In each of these rich and complex works, the lucidity of both the Brabant Ensemble's singing and Rice's direction is hugely impressive. Polyphony written in so many parts can often sound dense and obscure (albeit ravishing to the ear). Measured tempos and highly disciplined singing, unhampered by vibrato, ensure that all part are clearly distinguishable.

August 2012

Stephen Rice extracts from his singers a pure sound but one that is full of expression. Vibrato is used by each singer but discreetly and the sense of ensemble is second to none...I see no reason why anyone with an interest in Renaissance choral music shouldn’t get this straightaway

10th June 2012

The Brabant's singing throughout is polished, flexible, lean and – exactly what you want here – transcendent.

Jean Mouton: Missa Tu es Petrus & other works

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