Browse: Machaut - Messe de Nostre Dame

This collection has been programmed with considerable care. Machaut's glorious Messe de Nostre Dame forms its centre, both in terms of its musical substance and its famously provocative rhythmic... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Grandelevoix explore the sacred in Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame with portamento and vocal twists and turns, shocking with visceral, stone-ground sonorities in exciting, idiosyncratic,... — Choir & Organ, January 2017 More…

If I had to name one wonderful thing about the singing, it would be the carefully aligned medieval French vowels. Another choice would be the subtle phrasing… I would also add that’s Blue Heron’s... — MusicWeb International, January 2023 More…

This is the closest anyone has yet come to recording Machaut's setting as he himself might have heard it; the coupling is a sampling of songs from Le Voir Dit, another intriguingly autobiographical... — Early Music America, Winter 2001/Spring 2002 More…

This is a compelling, richly ornamented account of the earliest known polyphonic mass by a named composer; exquisite, otherworldly harmonies and eternal words, delivered with clarity, passion... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Vienna Vocal Consort are a mixed a cappella quintet whose solid basic timbre bespeaks a certain experience of singing together. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2017 More…