Sensenta

All this Early Music is being received well so far, so we’ll stick to that territory for this episode. The territory of our colleagues from the Early Music department, where you’ll hear plenty more of this beautiful genre.

But as Sensenta we go for long pieces, for the contemplative. So we’ll play Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame in this episode, a piece written somewhere before 1365. A piece as old as some cathedrals we know.

After 20 minutes of early polyphony the piece falls into the silence of chant, only to be broken by sudden new bursts of polyphony. That polyphony rumbles, is full of parallel fourths. It is, in short, hypnotic Medieval music at it’s best.

00:55 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Introitus
06:03 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Kyrie Eleison
13:09 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Gloria in Excelsis Deo
18:09 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Collecta: Veneranda Nobis
19:15 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Epistulum: Lectio Libri Sapiente
21:18 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Graduale: Propter Veritatem
24:39 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Alleluia, Assumpta Est Maria
26:45 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Evangelium: In Illo Tempore Intravit Jesus
28:43 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Credo In Unum Deum
36:00 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Offertorium: Diffusa Est Gratia
36:28 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Praefatio
40:17 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Sanctus & Benedictus
44:57 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Pater Noster
46:36 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Agnus Dei
50:08 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Communio: Regina Mundi
54:52 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Postcommunio: Mense Celestis
56:00 Guillaume de Machaut – Messe de Nostre Dame, Ite Missa Est

(Uitgevoerd door Ensemble Gilles Binchois)
57:40 Guillaume de Machaut – De Toutes Flour