Gothic Music

Music of the Gothic Era
The Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow, dir.
DG Archiv 2723 045 [LPx3]
DG Archiv 2710 019 [LPx3]
DG Archiv 423 354 1AH3 [LPx3]
DG Archiv "Codex" 453 185-2 [CDx2]
DG Archiv "Codex" 469 027-2GCL [CDx2]
Musical Heritage Society MHS 525 643F [CDx2]
DG Archiv "Blue" 471 731-2 [CDx2]

Contents:

    LP/CD-1

    Leonin:
  1. Organum (2v): Viderunt omnes
  2. Organum (2v): Alleluya Pascha nostrum
  3. Organum (2v): Gaude Maria Virgo
  4. Organum (2v): Locus iste

    5. ----
    Perotin:
  5. Organum (4v): Viderunt omnes
  6. Organum (4v): Sederunt principes

    7. LP-2

    Anon., Codex Montpellier, faculté de médecine de Montpellier MS H 196:
  7. Motet (3v): Alle, psallite cum luya
  8. Motet (3v): Amor potest
  9. Motet (3v): S'on me regarde
  10. Motet (3v): In mari miserie
  11. Motet (3v): On parole de batre
  12. Motet (3v): En mai quant rosier sont flouri

    13. Anon., Codex Bamberg, Bamberg MS Ed IV, 6:
  13. Motet (3v): Dominator Domine
  14. Motet (3v): El mois de mai
  15. Motet (3v): O mitissima

    16. CD-2

  16. Motet (3v): Hoquetus 1-VII:
    1. Neuma
    2. Virgo
    3. In seculum longum
    4. In seculum viellatoris
    5. In seculum breve
    6. In seculum d'Amiens longum
    7. In seculum
    17. ----
    Petrus de Cruce, Codex Montpellier, faculté de médecine de Montpellier MS H 196
  17. Aucun ont trouvé

    18. Adam de la Halle:
  18. Motet (3v): De me dame vient
  19. Motet (3v): J'os bien a m'amie parler

    20. Anon: Roman de Fauvel
  20. Motet (3v): Le mesnie fauveline
  21. Motet (3v): Quant je le voi
  22. Motet (3v): Zelus familie
  23. Motet (4v): Quasi non ministerium

    24. Philippe de Vitry:
  24. Impudentur circumivi
  25. Cum statua

    26. LP-3

    Bernard de Cluny, Codex Ivrea:
  26. Motet (5v): Pantheon abluitur

    27. Anon., codex Ivrea
  27. Motet (3v): Clap, clap, par un

    28. Henri Gilles de Pusiex, Codex Ivrea:
  28. Motet (4v): Ida capillorum
  29. Motet (3v): Rachel plorat filios

    30. Anon., Codex Ivrea:
  30. Motet (3v): Lés l'ormel a la turelle
  31. Motet (3v): O Philippe, Franci qui generis
  32. Motet (3v): Febus mundo oriens

    33. ----
    Guillaume de Machaut:
  33. Motet (3v): Lasse! comment oublieray
  34. Motet (3v): Qui es promesses
  35. Motet (3v): Hoquetus David
  36. Motet (4v): Christe qui lux es

    37. Anon., Codex Chantilly:
  37. Motet (4v): Degentis vita
  38. Motet (3v): Inter densas deserti meditans

    39. Philippe Royllart, Codex Chantilly:
  39. Motet (5v): Rex Karole, Johannis genite

Playing time: 2h 18' 19" (LP), 67' 16" + 72' 04" = 2h 19' 20" (CD)

Performers: The Early Music Consort of London [James Bowman (countertenor), Charles Brett (countertenor), Paul Elliott (tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), John Nixon (tenor), John Potter (tenor), Geoffrey Shaw (bass), Oliver Brookes (fiddle), Eleanor Sloane (rebec, fiddle), Nigel North (rebec), James Tyler (lute, mandora), Gillian Reid (bells, psaltery), Christopher Hogwood (harp, portable organ), David Corkhill (bells, positive organ, naker, tabor), Michael Laird (cornett, alto cornett), Iaan Wilson (cornett), Alan Lumsden (tenor cornett, slide trumpet), David Munrow (soprano, alto & tenor recorder, alto & tenor shawm, tenor cornemuse)] - David Munrow.

Recording site and date:
Chapel, Charter House, Godalming / Surrey, UK [04/1975] Conway Hall, London, UK [10/1975]

Excerpts:
[1], [5], [7]-[10], [15], [17]-[20], [24]-[25], [27], [32]-[35], [38] DG Archiv Produktion 415 292-2 [CD]
[7], [9]-[10], [12], [14]-[15], [19]-[21], [24], [26]-[27], [29], [30], [34], [39] DG Archiv Produktion 449 082-2 [CDx4] The Medieval experience

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 216-33 (april 1977); 311/96 (dec. 1985 (as Archiv 415 292-2))
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 54/642-862 (nov.1976)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 3/1-222 (1979), 22/3-289 (January/February 1999), 27/2-242 (November/December 2003).

Comments: Information from owned LP and CDs & Jane Pattle.

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Pierre-F. Roberge