Dufay: Music for St. James the Greater (1998)

This is the Gramophone Award Winners edition of the Binchois Consort's Dufay: Music for St. James the Greater, originally released by Hyperion in 1998. This album did indeed take the Gramophone Award for Early Music in 1999; in citing it, Dufay expert David Fallows commented, "all reviewers agree that it sets new standards in the lucid presentation of this music." Its centerpiece is Dufay's enormous Missa Sancta Jacobi (or Mass of St. James the Greater), it is heard here in the nine-movement version from Bologna manuscript ... Read More

This is the Gramophone Award Winners edition of the Binchois Consort's Dufay: Music for St. James the Greater, originally released by Hyperion in 1998. This album did indeed take the Gramophone Award for Early Music in 1999; in citing it, Dufay expert David Fallows commented, "all reviewers agree that it sets new standards in the lucid presentation of this music." Its centerpiece is Dufay's enormous Missa Sancta Jacobi (or Mass of St. James the Greater), it is 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.... Read Less

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