Guillaume Dufay is wonderfully feted in Gothic Voices’ latest disc, imagining him as the guest of honour at a wedding banquet on New Year’s Day towards the end of his life in the 1470s. Such a scenario allows us a retrospective savouring of his considerable output, both chansons and motets. Dufay was the closest thing the 15th-century musical world had to an international superstar. By the end of his long life (scholars now guess he died in his late 70s) he had risen from the ranks of choirboy to being a musician trusted by some of the most powerful people in Europe, including the d’Este family and Pope Eugene IV.