Pierre de Manchicourt: Missa Cuidez vous que Dieu nous faille

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The centrepiece of the recording, the Guidez vous Mass, in an inspired choice. From the clamorous lines of the opening Kyrie with their spicy harmonic clashes, through the superbly portrayed... — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Apr 2007
Catalogue No: CDA67604
Label: Hyperion
Length: 67 minutes

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Manchicourt: Regina caeli

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The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice

Richafort: Cuidez vous que Dieu nous faille

Work length1:59

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The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice

Manchicourt: Peccantem me quotidie

Work length7:08

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The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice

Manchicourt: Missa Cuidez vous que Dieu nous faille

Work length31:30

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The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice

I. Kyrie

Track length4:07

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II. Gloria

Track length5:47

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III. Credo

Track length9:51

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IV. Sanctus and Benedictus

Track length6:25

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V. Agnus Dei

Track length5:20

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Manchicourt: Osculetur me

Work length6:16

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The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice

Manchicourt: Ne reminiscaris, Domine

Work length5:24

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The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice

Manchicourt: Magnificat secundi toni

Work length10:52

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The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice

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The Brabant Ensemble takes its name from the corner of northern Belgium and southern Netherlands thatas the Duchy of Brabanthosted a remarkable flowering of compositional innovation in the generation 15201560. Under the watchful eye of their eminent musicologistdirector Dr Stephen Rice, this talented groups first excursion into this fertile seam of virgin repertoire surveyed the music of Thomas Crecquillon and won a host of warm accolades. This second recording turns to the lesser-known figure of Pierre de Manchicourt, a master whose neglect seems all the more extraordinary once his output and contemporary renown are explored. Free from the dense textures and complexities which could be associated with the repertoire of this period, we find in Manchicourt music which at once combines melodic invention and astonishing rhythmic ingenuity within a whole of refreshing accessibility. The programme is centred on his Missa Cuidez vous que Dieu nous faille which is presented alongside its eponymous model, a chanson by Jean Richafort. In addition we have several of his sacred motets (for varying voice combinations) and his only setting of the Magnificat.

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Proms 2007

The centrepiece of the recording, the Guidez vous Mass, in an inspired choice. From the clamorous lines of the opening Kyrie with their spicy harmonic clashes, through the superbly portrayed dramas of the Credo, and into the quieter realms of the Sanctus and Agnus, this choir is never less than energised and sure-footed.

2010

Even in his lifetime, Manchicourt's fame was not what it might have been. There were so many fine composers in the mid-16th-century that it's no easy matter to explain what it is that makes certain composers' music stand out.
Manchicourt's has something of Gombert's concentration of materials, with textures that are just as full but rather brighter; and his considerable contrapuntal ingenuity is often laced with wit (as in the canonic Regina caeli). From the song by Richafort on which he bases his Mass Cuidez vous que Dieu nous faille, Manchicourt has a knack of selecting those moments that can be expanded and developed into largescale passages of considerable rhetorical power.
The small-scale as well as the medium-length motets are also worth hearing.
The sound recording is very fine, though the dominance of the trebles slightly obscures the contrapuntal working of the lower voices. All the same, this is a must-have for anybody interested in Renaissance music, marginal or not.

A must-have disc from The Brabant Ensemble … first-rate music stirs this young ensemble to their finest disc yet.

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