Messe modale: Upper Voices Music for Mass by Alain, Faure and Langlais
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Label: Ad Fontes
Cat No: AF018
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Expected Release Date: 10th July 2026
Contents
Works
Choral cistercienMesse modale en septuor, AWV110
O quam suavis est, AWV39
Alleluia - Ave Maria (plainchant)
Beata viscera (plainchant)
Gaudeamus (plainchant)
Gloria
Messe basse
Missa in simplicitate
Prieres (3)
O salutaris Hostia
Aim Karin fantasie for flute and organ
Artists
Buckfast Abbey Choir (choir)Charles Maxtone-Smith (organ)
Conductor
Matthew SearlesWorks
Choral cistercienMesse modale en septuor, AWV110
O quam suavis est, AWV39
Alleluia - Ave Maria (plainchant)
Beata viscera (plainchant)
Gaudeamus (plainchant)
Gloria
Messe basse
Missa in simplicitate
Prieres (3)
O salutaris Hostia
Aim Karin fantasie for flute and organ
Artists
Buckfast Abbey Choir (choir)Charles Maxtone-Smith (organ)
Conductor
Matthew SearlesAbout
Drawing on repertoire from a short yet vibrant period in early twentieth century France, the programme showcases Masses by Gabriel Fauré, Jehan Alain and Jean Langlais, three significant figures in the evolving tradition of French church music.
These works are interspersed with Gregorian chants in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, patron of the Abbey Church at Buckfast, in whose radiant acoustics this album was recorded.
Fauré’s Messe basse, with its intimate lyricism, is paired with a contemporary Gloria by David Davies.
Alain’s Messe modale en septuor reveals his rhythmic vitality and chant-inspired style, while Langlais’s Missa in simplicitate embodies an effortless spiritual purity.
Rooted in the Benedictine tradition - restored at Buckfast by French monks in 1882 - and French inspiration, this album offers music of beauty, simplicity and prayerful intensity.
CD in hardback book.
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