The Dufay Spectacle
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GUILLAUME DUFAY
The Dufay Spectacle
Gothic Voices
[ Linn / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 27 April 2018
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Following its Linn debut which saw the 'revitalisation of an iconic group' (Choir & Organ), Gothic Voices presents The Dufay Spectacle, featuring special guest Andrew Lawrence-King.
In a pageant of versatility featuring France's greatest pre-Renaissance composer we enter the world of a grand New Year' Day wedding feast, full of optimism and vision, tempered by playful emotional hardship, the music teasingly exploring the relationship between both, solemnised with some of Dufay's greatest motets and a festive use of instruments to mark the splendour of the occasion.
From this final flourish of the mediaeval era we hear in Dufay's quintessential Burgundian virtuosity how its musical richness has reached the point when it is about to burst into the new artistry and ideas of the Renaissance.
The Dufay Spectacle celebrates this artist's genius with an eclectic show of frolicking and passionate robustness, plaintive devotional ardour, now with slow, dark rhythms, now upbeat cascades of melody, and thrilling complex rhythms. As the central chanson rings out its New Year's promise ce jour de l'an is indeed a day to celebrate.
GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Early Music
"It looks very much as though Julian Podger is the presiding genius; and he has chosen the repertory very well...[the five motets are] presented in what seem to me the most intelligent and musically transparent performances...To mention all the glorious details here would break the banks of this review but I cannot avoid mentioning the marvellously experienced singing of Catherine King and her duetting with Steven Harrold: that is seriously classy" Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2018
"The four singers of Gothic Voices, the mezzo Clare Wilkinson and a quartet of instrumentalists seem perfectly attuned to Dufay's intoxicatingly elegant, graceful style" Sunday Times
"So this beautifully illustrated and presented disc with texts clearly set out and with a short but useful essay in a booklet tucked inside its cardboard cover represents a new stage in the development of Gothic Voices. It's hard not to see Andrew Lawrence King's influence considering other recordings he has been involved with, although the notes are by the singer Julian Podger. And I for one welcome their new direction and look foreword to see where it will next lead them." MusicWeb May 2018
Tracks:
The Welcome
Ce jour de l'an (single verse monophonic) 0.36
Vasilissa, ergo gaude/Concupivit rex decorum [2.45]
Entre vous, gentils amoureux [1.50]
A Reflection
Et pour certain (single verse) monophonic [0.37]
Je require a tous amoureux [2.31]
Je vous pri/Tant que mon argent/Ma trés doiuce amie [1.26]
Je me complains piteusement [1.36]
Las, Que feray? ne que devenray ? [4.32]
Solemn Celebration
Ce jour de l'an (played on vilhuela) [0.36]
O sancte Sebastiane /O martyr Sebastiane /O quam mira/ Gloria et honore [4.39]
Se la face ay pale(sic) (Buxheimer Orgelbuch) [1.51]
Se la phase pale (Buxheimer Orgelbuch [1.49]
Vergine bella [3.41]
Salve flos Tuscae gentis/Vos nunc Etruscae/Vii mendaces [5.39]
Portigaler (Buxheiomer orgelbuch) [3.12]
16. Ecclesiae militantis/Sanctorum arbitrio/Bella canunt/Gabriel/Ecce nomen domini [4.37]
Resvelliés vous et faites chier lye [5.00]
Apostolo glorioso/Cum tua doctrina/Andreas, Christ famulus [3.14]
Playful Celebration
Ce jour de l'an (played on psaltery) [0.44]
Mon bien, m'amour [4.27]
Quel fronte signorille (played on bray harp)
Estrinez moy, je vous estrineray [2.46]
Ce jour de l'an (played on vihuela and bray harp)
Puisque vous estez campier [2.48]
Ce jour de l'an (ensemble)[2.43]
