Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame 2 Kyrie eleyson

Guillaume de Machaut (1300 - 1377)
Messe de Nostre Dame

Ensemble Guilles Binchois
Dominique Vellard, director
Carlos Mena, contratenor
José Hernández Pastor, contratenor
Stephan van Dyck, tenor
Hervé Lamy, tenor
Jacques Bona, barítono

Abadía de Thoronet, Provenza, 2002

Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=766F06524722133B

Category:

Music

Tags:

• messe
• misa
• mass
• medieval
• Machaut
• Nostre
• Dame

[DeHeld8]

"it's not so bad" "not that great"

What are you guys talking about?! This is a freakin' masterpiece of mathematically interlocking melodic harmony!

[NihilNominis]

@MrEffmylyfe Do you suppose that your professor is having you listen to a seven-hundred-year-old piece of music because it is not too bad or because it is a masterpiece?

[adamshey]

I have just been given this music to learn for my choir. I can't listen to this without getting teary eyed! I only hope my choir can do this magnificent piece of music justice. It is so haunting and reaches to the depth of the soul.

[TheFuckingBanshee]

Definitely prefer this to the other version on Youtube with the ultra flamboyant orthodox style ornamentation. Thanks for the upload.

[GTTDG]

This music is certainly very interesting for its capability to evoke a remote past of our civilization. But in my opinion it's even more interesting because of the difficulty of recreating the ancient style. The thirds seem pure (I think that singers employ natural intonation) and above all consonant, in a conception where the only consonances are the octave, the fifth and the fourth. Performing this music is very difficult, and even more hearing it in its "significant".

[Siberika]

lol le chef de choeur on dirait Nelson Monfort !

[MatthewLeighEmbleton]

One of the greatest pieces of music from the Medieval period. Nice version too.

[Felepusen]

I simply love this! It's without a doubt a masterpiece! We have been listening to parts from it several times in a kind of "music history" class lately, and I just love it <3

[tomgraywind]

Stunning music, thank you for sharing it in this format. I had not heard the Ensemble Binchois before, though I'm familiar with the name--will definitely look for some of their recordings.