Codex Speciálník
- Codex Speciálník
- Hilliard Ensemble
ECM New Series 1504
Contents:
- Anon: Exordium quadruplate / Nate dei / Concrepet infanti /
Verbum caro factum
- Anon: Tria sunt munera / Videntes stellam / Reges Tharsis
- Anon: In natali domini
- Anon: Sophia nascitur / O quam pulchra / Magi videntes
- Anon: Congaudemus pariter / En lux immensa
- Anon: Magnum miraculum
- Anon: Nobis est natus
- Anon: Salve mater gracie
- Anon: Christus iam surrexit / Terra tremuit / Angelus domini
/ Surrexit Christus
- Grudencz: Presulem ephebeatum
- Grudencz: Paraneuma eructemus
- Grudencz: Presidiorum erogatrix
- Grudencz: Pneuma eucaristiarum / Veni vere illustrator / Dator
eya / Paraclito tripudia
- Anon: Terrigenarum plasmator
- Anon: Pulcherrima rosa
- Touront: Chorus iste
- Gontrásek: Bud' buohu chvála cest
- Agricola: O virens virginum
- Anon: Kyrie "Petite Camusette"
- Anon: Gloria "Petite Camusette"
- Plummer: Tota pulchra es
- Anon: Credo "Petite Camusette"
- Anon: Ave pura tu puella
- Anon: Sanctus "Petite Camusette"
- Josquin: Ave Maria, gratia plena
Performers: David James, Rogers Covey-Crump, John Potter, Gordon
Jones
Playing time: 77'
Recording date: January 1993
The manuscript from which these pieces are taken is from Prague.
The original compilation apparently dates from c.1500, with a later
binding in 1546. Pieces continued to be inserted, although these
additions are not represented in the present recording.
The recording begins with pieces representing a significantly
older style (c.1300), and progresses through pieces from c.1500,
including some by such well-known Renaissance figures as Josquin
and Agricola.
Some of the relatively unknown composers prominent in the
manuscript are Petrus de Grudencz (c.1400-1480), Johannes Touront
(fl.c.1450-80), Gontrásek (fl.c.1500), and John Plummer
(c.1410-c.1484). The anonymous Missa "Petite Camusette"
is the only truly large-scale piece recorded here.
A more recent recording:
- Codex Speciálník
- Cappella Mariana - Vojtech Semerád
Etcetera 1571
A recording devoted specifically to Petrus de Grudencz:
- Grudencz: Maiestas Dei
- Schola Gregoriana Pragensis - David Eben
Supraphon 3807
Another general Czech recording, with many older recording
references:
- Music of Charles University, Volume 2
- Ars Cameralis - Lukas Matousek
Studio Matous 0005
And a recording from Polish sources of the 15th century:
- Musique à la Chapelle des Jagellons
- Ensemble Ars Nova de Varsovie - Jacek Urbaniak
Accord 201032
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Todd M. McComb