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DUFAY: Missa L' homme arme

Composer(s):Dufay, Guillaume
Artist(s) Oxford Camerata, Choir • Summerly, Jeremy, Conductor
Period(s) Medieval
Genre Classical Music
Category Choral - Sacred
Catalogue 8.553087
Label Naxos
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
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USD 6.99
 

 

   



Very nearly excellent
Review By SB66640,January 2010

Like other Early Music albums from Naxos this is very good. The Oxford Camerata sing beautifully, but somehow or other it gives the impression that this was a job for them rather than something done for the love of it. Maybe I'm expecting too much, but although it cannot be faulted musically I have to imagine that Dufay would have wanted some feeling. This should not stop you buying it, indeed for some, my misgivings may be seen as an advantage.


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Review By Penguin Guide Key Recording,January 2009

Jeremy Summerly and his Oxford Camerata gives a powerfully expressive and wholly convincing account of Dufay’s masterly cyclic Mass using a Burgundian chanson as its basis. We hear this sung first in its original format as an introduction, and its message, ‘The armed man should be feared’, makes a dramatically appropriate contrast with the motet, Supremum est mortalibus, which is a peace song. The latter was written some 30 years earlier, yet it shows just as readily the remarkable inventiveness and eloquence of this 15th-century French composer. The Mass movements are interspersed with plainchant in the same Dorian mode. With vivid yet atmospheres recording this can be given the strongest recommendations.




 

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