The centerpiece of this Binchois Consort disc for Hyperion is Guillaume Dufay's enormous Missa Sancta Jacobi (or Mass of St. James the Greater) heard here in the nine-movement version from Bologna manuscript Q15 in a performance lasting 41 minutes. Dufay's music for St. James comes from early in his career, and chronologically this disc runs from the Gloria/Credo pair (1426) to the motet Balsamus et munda cera (1431), written in honor of St. Andrew, with the mass setting falling in between (1427). Balsamus et munda cera was ...
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The centerpiece of this Binchois Consort disc for Hyperion is Guillaume Dufay's enormous Missa Sancta Jacobi (or Mass of St. James the Greater) heard here in the nine-movement version from Bologna manuscript Q15 in a performance lasting 41 minutes. Dufay's music for St. James comes from early in his career, and chronologically this disc runs from the Gloria/Credo pair (1426) to the motet Balsamus et munda cera (1431), written in honor of St. Andrew, with the mass setting falling in between (1427). Balsamus et munda cera was performed on April 7, 1431, and Joan of Arc was burned at the stake on May 30, so that gives you an idea of the immensely distant historical context under discussion. These years often found Dufay in Northern Italy, and the mass may have been written for Bishop Pietro Emiliani of Vicenza, who served as patron to a number of other important composers of the day.The other pieces serve to illuminate and illustrate the larger work they are coupled with; one may require repeated hearings...
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