Messe De Nostre Dame

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Release Date: 2008-01

Label: Alpha Productions

Production 2007 Ⓒ 2008 Alpha / Made in Germany / Notes en Français / English commentary / Total time 60'55.
Recorded at Abbaye de Fontevraud, from 14 to 17 October 2007.
Equipment used: Microphones Neumann TLM 50 S - Recorder Nagra Digital 24 bits 88,2 Khz - Editing station Pyramix.

As a stylistic choice, latin texts are sung using the middle french pronunciation;
as this appears to be common in 14th century France.

Cover illustration by Les Frères Limbourg [Herman, Jean & Paul] from Heures du duc de Berry, folio 22, XIV-XVe:
'La Vierge, la Sibylle et l'Empereur Auguste, Les Oraisons de la Vierge, Les Très Riches';
Chantilly, Musée Condé Ⓒ RMN / Ⓒ René-Gabriel Ojéda.

The 56-page glossy booklet has beside French & English notes, also a track, source and credits-list.
It also contains the sung-texts in original Latin and their translations into Medieval French and English.
Booklet and CD are stored in a 6-panel foldout fully laminated digipak™.

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