Noël, Noël

Noël, Noël - Noël français / French Christmas Music 1200 - 1600
The Boston Camerata - Joël Cohen, dir.
Erato ECD 75569 [CD]
Erato 22992-45420-2 [CD]
Erato 22992-45420-4 [Cassette]

Contents:

    I - Minuit à Bethléem / Midnight in Bethleem

    Anon., (text) 16th c./gregorian (music): The Sybil's Prophecy
  1. Oyez Seigneur comment parla / Conditor alme

    2. Anon., gregorian:
  2. O oriens, splendor lucis aeternae

    3. Anon., (text) 16th c./gregorian (music):
  3. Kyrie "Le jour de Noël" / Fons bonitas

    4. II - Semaine de Noël à Beauvais / Christmas Week in Beauvais, ca 1200

    Anon., Beauvais ms:
  4. Lux Hodie - Orientis partibus
  5. Quem vidistis pastores
    Alle, resonnent omnes ecclesia
  6. Magnum nomen domini
  7. Lux optata claruit
  8. Virgo gemma virginum
  9. Quando decet honore

    10. III - À la Vierge / To the Virgin

    Gilles Binchois:
  10. Ave regins celorum

    11. Arnold de Lantins:
  11. In tua memoria

    12. Guillaume Dufay:
  12. Magnificat

    13. IV - Noël, Noël

    Antoine Brumel
  13. Noe, Noe

    14. Claude de Sermisy
  14. Noe, noe, magnificus est rex pacificus

    15. V - Une guirlande de Noëls Renaissance - A Renaissance bouquet of carols and dances

    Anon., 16th c.:
  15. Conditor en français

    16. Jean Daniel (text) / Pierre Certon (music):
  16. Chantons Noël, menon joyeuse vie

    17. Adrien le Roy:
  17. Bransle de Bourgogne

    18. Anon., 15th c.:
  18. Or vous trémoussez, pasteurs de Judée

    19. Anon., ca 1500:
  19. Et d'où venez-vous, Madame Lucette

    20. Claude Gervaise:
  20. Bransle de Bourgogne
    Bransle double

    21. Laurent Roux (text) / Claudin de Sermisy (music):
  21. Disons nau a pleine teste

    22. Tilman Susato:
  22. Ronde et Saltarello

    23. Nicolas Martin:
  23. Nouvelles, nouvelles

    24. Jehan Bonfon (text) / Passereau (music):
  24. Prè Bethléem dans une éstable

    25. Anon., ca 1600 (text) / Claudin de Sermisy (music):
  25. Sur le mont de Sion

    26. Pierre Certon: Messe "Sur le pont d'Avignon"
  26. Dona nobis pacem

    27. Anon., Avignon, 16th c.:
  27. O l'heureuse journée

    28. Claude Gervaise:
  28. Bransle de Champagne

    29. Nicolas Martin:
  29. Venez ouyr la trompette

    30. Claude Gervaise:
  30. Bransle de Champagne

Playing time: 62' 47"

Performers: The Boston Camerata:
Anne Azéma (soprano), Ellen Hargis (soprano), Laurie Monahan (mezzo-soprano), Michael Collver (counter-tenor), John Fleagle (tenor, hurdy-gurdy), William Hite (tenor), Herman Hildebrand (baritone), Joël Cohen (baritone, lute, percussion), Nicholas Issherwood (bass), Jesse Lepkoff (flutes, recorders), Dan Stillman (sackbut, shawm, recorders), Carol Lewis (vielle, tenor viol), Alice Robbins (vielle, bass viol)
The Boston Shawm and Sackbut Ensemble
Douglas Kirk (cornet, shawm), Dan Stillman (shawm, sackbut), William Ramsey (sackbut), Stephen Lundahl (sackbut)
Joël Cohen, dir.

Recording site and date:
Emmanuel Church, Boston, Massachusset, USA [01/1989]

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 355-221 (december 1989)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (#-p.): 14/4-465 (march/april 1991)

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