GASPARD CORRETTE Messe du 8e ton pour l'orgue (Mass in the 8th mode for Organ) Yves-G. Préfontaine, organ Les Chantres du Roy ACD2 2345 It is normally up to the children to make a name for themselves, in the wake of a father who may have left a lasting and significant stamp on history.   Yet in the present case, it is Gaspard Corrette who is indebted, so to speak, to his son Michel (whose career was brilliant) for having secured the posterity of the Corrette family name in the French Parnassus. Gaspard was probably born in Rouen in 1671; after he moved to Paris in 1720, all trace of him is lost, except that his death is alluded to in 1732.   Like so many other composers from this flourishing age, Gaspard Corrette left only one book of organ music, which he had published in 1703, a “Mass in the 8th mode, for the use of nuns and useful to those who play the organ.” It is performed here by the Montreal-based Yves-G. Préfontaine “a great organist, a great musician” (La Presse), on the historic organ by Julien Tribuot in the Church of St. Martin, Seurre (France) built in 1699. ORGUE PLAIN-CHANT KYRIE   1 Grand Plein jeu   2 Fugue   3 Cromorne en taille   4 Trio à deux dessus   5 Dialogue à deux Chœurs Kyrie eleison 2:16 Christe eleison 2:10 Christe eleison 4:12 Kyrie eleison 2:04 2:37 GLORIA   6 Prélude A deux Chœurs   7 Concert pour les Flûtes   8 Duo   9 Récit tendre pour le nazard 10 Dialogue de Voix humaine 11 Basse de trompette ou de cromome 12 Dessus de Tierce par accords 13 Tierce en Taille 14 Dialogue ~ deux Chœurs Intonation du Gloria Laudamus te 3:06 Adoramus te 1:06 Gratias agimus tibi... 1:36 Domine fili unigenite... 3:14 Qui tollis peccata mundi... 1:54 Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris... 1:42 Tu solus Dominus 2:53 Cum Sancto Spiritu... 3:37 1:34 GRADUEL 15 Trio 0:46 OFFERTOIRE 16 Grand Dialogue à trois Chœurs 8:23 SANCTUS 17 18 Plein jeu 19 Duo Clausule de la Préface 0:52 Sanctus 1:24 Pleni sunt coeli ... Benedictus 3:05 ÉLÉVATION 20 Cromorne en Taille 4:40 AGNUS DEI & ITE MISSA EST 21 Plein Jeu à deux Chœurs 22 Dialogue en fugue 23 Grand Plein Jeu Agnus Dei qui tollis 2:40 Ite missa est 2:31 0:27 GRADUEL 24 Basse de trompette ou de cromorne 1:45 ÉLÉVATION 25 Fond d'Orgue 3:50 ANONYME FRANÇAIS (XVIIc s.) 26 Dialogue 5:12 ATMA Classique is distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading PO Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone +61 (0)3 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile +61 (0)3 9444 6879