Maillard: Missa Je Suis Déshéritée & Motets - The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery

Jean Maillard’s life is shrouded in mystery, and his music is rarely heard today. Yet in his own time his works were both influential and widely known: indeed, the musicologist François Lesure held him to have been one of the most important French composers of his era.

Who better, then, than The Marian Consort and Rory McCleery, a scholar as well as a performer of rising acclaim, to give this composer’s rich and varied output its first dedicated recording? Their characteristically precise and yet impassioned performances bring out both the network of influence in which Maillard’s music participated – its Josquinian pedigree, and influence on successors including Lassus and Palestrina – and its striking, individual beauty.

1        Laudate Dominum    2:42
2        Je Suis Déshéritée
Composed By – Pierre Cadéac
1:52
3        Missa Je Suis Déshéritée - Kyrie    2:09
4        Omnes Gentes Attendite    4:37
5        Missa Je Suis Déshéritée - Gloria    4:01
6        Victimae Paschali Laudes    7:59
7        Missa Je Suis Déshéritée - Credo    6:41
8        Ascendo Ad Patrem Meum    4:17
9        Missa Je Suis Déshéritée - Sanctus & Benedictus    5:15
10        Fratres Mei Elongaverunt    4:16
11        Missa Je Suis Déshéritée - Agnus Dei    3:26
12        Hodie Maria Virgo    3:58
13        In Pace    5:38
14        Assumpta Est Maria    4:24
15        Gaudent In Caelis    4:11
16        In Me Transierunt    4:44