Ockeghem Missa Mi-mi Gloria

Some of the most sublime music ever composed. Rebecca Stewart and the conductor-less Cappella Pratensis use a choir book with mensural notation rather than a score.

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Music

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• Ockeghem
• Missa
• Mi-mi
• Gloria
• Cappella
• Pratensis
• Renaissance
• choral
• astronomy

[BilboHalfling]

i really feel that Ockeghem stands out from other composers of the period, before and after him. underrated?

[TheGloryofMusic]

@BilboHalfling He's not underrated but he is under-appreciated.

[janeym]

This choir is perfect! Amazing sensitivity, and the music itself is gorgeous!

[TheGloryofMusic]

This performance is one of the greatest things I've ever heard. Unfortunately, all of their recordings are out of print and nearly unavailable. I saw one copy of this CD for sale a few months ago on German Amazon.

[HolyMotherofGrid]

Have to agree with you - simply exquisite!!!! I've just marked this as a "favorite", and will return to it and your other smashing offerings often. Thank you from the top, bottom and all other parts of my heart!!

[TheGloryofMusic]

Thanks for the comment!

[ClassicalMusicReview]

Johannes Ockeghem created the most multi-dimensional and animately dimensional heavy metal I've ever heard.This rhetoric touches all my chakras simultaneously and cuts my soul to the bone.This is a fine performance for it's ability to imply the strength and totality of cosmic love obscured while totally integrated through eternally conscious space.Bravo!

[SeanMcHugh00]

And I've just noticed you have that PAC recording I mentioned on your playlist- the Desprez Missa L'homme arme super voices musicales was the coupling.

[SeanMcHugh00]

Yes this is extremely fine and intelligently shaped Renaissance polyphony, and one of the strongest recordings of a mass I've ever heard, out of many dozens I've got to know. It also reminds me of the amazing Pro Antiqua Cantione recording of the Ockeghem Requiem on DG Archiv from the 70s(?) but is perhaps even more involving. As for the astronomical images this is a stroke of genius I think! Christianity's heart is really cosmic truths and not insistence on dogma and history.

[orangiezade]

I love this! such beautiful harmonies. I think this is the most peaceful and mysterious version of the Gloria I have found. Ockeghem gives such awe and wonder to the Latin text, which proclaims the glory and authority of the Christ, the son of God. Although the song has nothing to do with space, I like the visual picture of God's amazing creation.

[ProfessorGrumpy]

Heavenly!

[sitithesecond]

Johannes Ockeghem is composer of the week on the radio here. I am so enjoying it. And thank you for posting this sublime composition.

[oneb14]

@TheGloryofMusic "Some of the most sublime music ever composed."

I totally agree! Thank you for this upload.

[1ndabag]

@beanic00 Ignore him. That's all they have: ridicule, snark, mockery. Truly pitiable.

[beanic00]

very sad that all of you forgot that it's not about chakras or space this music is for God, and that's why it's so beautiful!

[beanic00]

very sad that all of you forgot that it's not about chakras or space this music is for God, and tht,s why it's so beautiful!