The Medieval Experience

The Medieval Experience
Various Ensembles (Choralschola der abtei Müchwarzach; The Early Music Consort of London,; Choeur de l'abaye Notre-Dame de Fontgombault; Pro Cantione Antiqua & The London Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble)
Archiv 449 082-2 [4 CDs]

Contents:

    CD-1: Monks and troubadours I

    Anon.:
  1. Antiphona: Hosanna
  2. Antiphona: Pueri Hebraerum

    3. Anon., Codex Montpellier, faculté de médecine de Montpellier MS H 196:
  3. Motet (3v): En mai quant rosier sont

    4. Anon.:
  4. Antiphona: Cum audisset

    5. Anon., Codex Montpellier, faculté de médecine de Montpellier MS H 196:
  5. Motet (3v): Alle, psallite cum luya

    6. Anon.:
  6. Antiphona: Coeperunt omnes
  7. Antiphona: Occurrunt turbae
  8. Antiphona: Cum angelis
  9. Antiphona: Ante sex dies

    10. Anon., Codex Montpellier, faculté de médecine de Montpellier MS H 196:
  10. Motet (3v): S'on me regarde

    11. Anon.:
  11. Hymnus: Gloria, laus et honor

    12. Anon., Codex Bamberg, Bamberg MS Ed IV,6:
  12. Motet (3v): El mois de mai

    13. Anon.:
  13. Responsorium: Ingrediente

    14. Adam de la Halle:
  14. Motet (3v): J'os bien a m'amie parler

    15. Anon.:
  15. Introitus: Domine, ne longe facias

    16. Anon., Codex Bamberg, Bamberg MS Ed IV, 6:
  16. Motet (3v): O mitissima

    17. Anon.:
  17. Graduale: Tenuisti manum dextram

    18. Anon.: Roman de Fauvel
  18. Motet (3v): La mesnie fauveline

    19. Anon.:
  19. Offertorium: Improperium
  20. Communio: Pater si non potest

    21. Philippe de Vitry: Roman de Fauvel
  21. Motet (4v): Impudenter circumivi

    22. CD-2: Monks and troubadours II

    Anon.:
  22. Introitus: Terribilis esté

    23. Anon., Codex Montpellier, faculté de médecine de Montpellier MS H 196:
  23. Motet (3v): In mari miserie

    24. Anon.:
  24. Kyrie XII
  25. Gloria XII

    26. Anon., Codex Ivrea:
  26. Motet (3v): Clap, clap, par un matin

    27. Anon.:
  27. Graduale: Locus iste
  28. Alleluia: Adorabo
  29. Offertorium: Domine Deus

    30. Anon.: Roman de Fauvel
  30. Motet (3v): Quant je le voi

    31. Anon.:
  31. Sanctus XII
  32. Agnus Dei XII
  33. Communio: Domus mea

    34. Guillaume de Machaut:
  34. Motet (3v): Qui es promesses

    35. Anon.:
  35. Invitorium et psalmodia: Domum Dei

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

    37. Anon.:
  37. Responsorium: Fundata est

    38. Anon., Codex Ivrea:
  38. Motet (3v): Lés l'ormel a la turelle

    39. Anon.:
  39. Antiphona
    Antiphona
    Antiphona
    Antiphona
    Antiphona
  40. Hymnus: Angularis fundamentum
  41. Antiphona ad Benedictus: Zachaee

    42. Henri Gilles de Pusiex, Codex Ivrea:
  42. Motet (3v): Rachel plorat filios

    43. Anon.:
  43. Hymnus: Urbs Jerusalem
  44. Antiphona ad Magnificat: Sanctificavit
  45. Antiphona ad Magnificat: O quam metuendus est

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

    47. CD-3: Motets

    John Dunstable:
  47. Motet: Veni sancti spiritus
  48. Motet: Beata mater
  49. Motet: Preco preheminencie
    Guillaume Dufay:
  50. Motet: Supremum est mortalibus
  51. Motet: Flos florum
  52. Motet: Vasilissa, ergo gasude
  53. Motet: Alma redemptoris mater

    54. Gilles Binchois:
  54. Gloria laus et honor
  55. Agnus Dei

    56. Jacob Obrecht:
  56. Beata es, Maria

    57. Josquin Desprez:
  57. Motet: Huc me sydereo/Plangent eum

    58. CD-4: Masses and memorials

    Josquin Desprez: Missa "L'homme armé super voces musicales"
  58. Kyrie
  59. Gloria
  60. Credo
  61. Sanctus
  62. Agnus Dei

    63. Johannes Ockeghem: Missa "pro defunctis" (Requiem)
  63. Introitus
  64. Kyrie
  65. Graduale
  66. Tractus
  67. Offertorium

    68. Josquin Desprez:
  68. Nymphes des bois (Déploration sur la mort d'Ockeghem)

Playing time: 58' 50" + 62' 04" + 60' 09" + 75' 22" = 4h 16" 25'

Performers & recording sites and dates:
Choralschola der abtei Müchwarzach; The Early Music Consort of London,; Choeur de l'abaye Notre-Dame de Fontgombault; Pro Cantione Antiqua & The London Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble; released in 1995.
For more precise details, refer to individual links below (excerpts).

Excerpts (from original release):
[1]-[2], [4], [6-9], [11], [13], [15], [17], [19], [20] Archiv Produktion 2533 320 [LP] Chants on Palms Sunday (Choralschola der abtei Münsterschwarzach - Pater Godehard Joppich)
[3], [5], [10], [12], [14], [16], [18], [21], [23], [26], [30], [34], [36], [38], [42], [46] Archiv Produktion 2710 019 [LPx3] Music of the Gothic era
[22], [24], [25], [27-29], [31-33], [35], [37], [39-41], [43-45] DG Archiv Produktion 2533 359 Gregorian Chant (Choeur de l'abaye Notre-Dame de Fontgombault - Dom G. Duchêne, dir.)
[47]-[53] Archiv Produktion 2533 291 [LP] Dufay - Dunstable: Motetten-Motets
[54]-[55] Archiv Produktion 2533 404 [LP] Busnois: Missa "L'homme armé" Binchois: Motetten-Motets
[56] Archiv Produktion 2533 377 [LP] Jakob Obrecht: Salve Regina - Beata es Maria - Salve crux; Pierre de la Rue: Laudate Dominum - Pater de caelis - Gaude virgo - Salve Regina
[57]-[62] Archiv Produktion 2533 360 [LP] Josquin: Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales - Huc me sydereo; Gombert; Musae Jovis; Vinders: O mors inevitabilis
[63]-[68] Archiv Produktion 2533 145 [LP] Johannes Ockeghem: Missa Pro Defunctis - Josquin Després: Déploration sur la mort d'Ockeghem
33 r.p.m. - Other recordings:
[47], [51], [53], [55], [57]-[68] Archiv Produktion 2723 070 [LPx6] Geistliche Musik der Renaissance
[48], [52] Schwann HL 0 0 211 Spektrum Musik (Musikkundein Beispelen (2) die Geschichte) (5 LPs)
CD:
[57]-[67] Archiv Produktion 415 293-2 Desprez: Missa "L'homme armé" - Ockeghem: Requiem

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
(a) 56/664-528 (sept. 1978 (as Archiv 2533 320))
(b) 54/642-862 (nov.1976 (as DG Archiv 2710 019))
(c) 56/669-1460 (feb. 1979 (as Archiv 2533 359))
(f) 56/672-1922 (may 1979 (Archiv 2533 377))
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
Information owned Cds.
A reference for Philips label with the same number appeared im New Releases, Gramophone, december 2002. I have been informed that this is a Gramophone error. Universal (ex-PolyGram) keeps its groups of a thousand numbers intact by label, so all the 449000 numbers are D.G., none of them are Philips.

Some other medieval compilations:

Music in Medieval Europe
Studio der frühen Music & Early Music Institute - Thomas Binkley
Focus 883-4S [2 Cassettes]
History of European Music - Part I: Music of the Early Middle Ages
Schola Cantorum Londiniensis - Edgar Fleet & Denis Stevens, dirs
Musical Heritage Society OR 349 / 51 [3 LPs]

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Pierre-F. Roberge