Guillaume Dufay's Mass for St. Anthony Abbot has been known about a long time, as Dufay's own last will and testament records that such a manuscript score was donated to the library of Cambrai Cathedral, where Dufay lived and worked most of his long life. Like Dufay's setting of the Requiem, the Mass for St. Anthony Abbot was believed irretrievably lost, until a setting corresponding to it was located in one of the Trent codices in Northern Italy. This Hyperion recording, Guillaume Dufay: Mass for St. Anthony Abbot, is the ...
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Guillaume Dufay's Mass for St. Anthony Abbot has been known about a long time, as Dufay's own last will and testament records that such a manuscript score was donated to the library of Cambrai Cathedral, where Dufay lived and worked most of his long life. Like Dufay's setting of the Requiem, the Mass for St. Anthony Abbot was believed irretrievably lost, until a setting corresponding to it was located in one of the Trent codices in Northern Italy. This Hyperion recording, Guillaume Dufay: Mass for St. Anthony Abbot, is the first performance of the work to be committed to recording, featuring the Binchois Consort under the leadership of Andrew Kirkman. They also were the first to record another significant Dufay attribution, the Missa puisque jai vis, likewise for Hyperion. The turn of the twenty first century has proven an exciting time for scholars interested in the music of the fifteenth. The acknowledged "king" of this era is Dufay, but his main contemporaries, Gilles Binchois and John Dunstable,...
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