Guillaume Dufay (1397 - 1474)

Quadrivium - Motets


Recorded at Chiesa del Colletto, Roletto (Italy), in August and December 2004


Alena Dantcheva (soprano, harp)
Laura Fabris (soprano)
Maria Teresa Nesci (soprano)
Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor, organ)
Fabio Furnari (tenor)Giuseppe Maletto (tenor)
Maco Scavazza (baritone)
Guido Magnano (organ)Marta Graziolino (harp)
Svetlana Fomina (fiddle)
Efix Puleo (fiddle)
Mauro Molini (trumpet, sackbut)
David Yacus (sackbut)
Sveva Martin (soprano)
Livio Cavallo (tenor)
Margret Koll (harp)
Davide Rebuffa (lute)


Cantica Symphonia
Giuseppe Maletto - conductor


On this recording, approached from the beginning as a great tribute to science, Dufay’s motets sound as they never did before, with the wise incorporation of instruments where the score is claiming them, with that perfection engraved with humanity that only the greatest can transmit, with a music and an interpretation that are far beyond the fashions of the moment. A full celebration of the eternal expressed through the ephemeral...

Cantica Symphonia, in their first recording for Glossa, perform Dufay's motets with the careful addition of wind instruments and an organ as the score dictates.


01. Salve flos Tuscae gentis
02. Apostolo glorioso, da Dio electo
03. Imperatrix angelorum
04. Alma Redemptoris Mater (I)
05. Gaude Virgo, Mater Christi
06. Ecclesiae militantis
07. Anima mea liquefacta est
08. Vasilissa, ergo gaude
09. Salve Regina
10. Inclita stella maris
11. Alma Redemptoris Mater (II)
12. Balsamus et munda cera
13. Juvenis qui puellam
14. Flos florum
15. Nuper rosarum flores

Total Time - 77'49