Missa de beata virgine / Motets
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ANTOINE BRUMEL
Missa de beata virgine / Motets
The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice
[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 10 November 2014
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The Brabant Ensemble continues its exploration of hidden gems of the Renaissance with an album of music by Antoine Brumel, famous for his 'Earthquake' Mass but otherwise barely known today. Conductor Stephen Rice has assembled an intriguing collection of works including the Missa de beata virgine, a work suffused with plainsong but in which the voices are used almost percussively, making rhythm the driving force of the piece. The Christmas motet Nato canunt omnia is one of the most remarkable musical works of the period.
The Brabant Ensemble's performance is polished yet light, flexible expressive and spontaneous, parading the polyphony in all its glory.
"Brumel is a master of textural variety and of changing vocal colourings. He always keeps your attention as is well demonstrated here...it's very welcome as a fine addition to the catalogue." (MusicWeb Jan 2015)
"The programme showcases [Brumel's] heterogenous style...and the group's radiant sound - superbly captured in the open, silvery recording - illuminates the multiple texts of this glittering musical mosaic...a fine balance of insightful musicological research and seraphic singing." (Five Stars BBC Music)
"Its centrepiece is his Mass for the Blessed Virgin...one of Brumel's finest works, in which his tendency to note-spinning is kept in check (as it is in the rest of the music chosen for this recording)...The Brabants have never ventured this early before but on this showing I hope very much that they will do so again." (Gramophone)
"The twelve-member Brabant Ensemble is excellent in all respects in this music, captured at the Church of St. Michael and all Angels at Oxford. This album fills a needed gap in the moderate yet undernourished Brabant discography." (AudAud.com)
Tracks:
Nato canunt omnia
Beata es, Maria
Lauda Sion salvatorem
Ave caelorum domina
Missa de beata virgine
