Chants of the Milanese Church

Chants de l'Église Milanaise
Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi HM 40 1295 [Cass.]
Harmonia Mundi HM 90 1295 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi "Suite" HMT 790 1295 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi "Musique d'abord" HMA 195 1295 [CD]

Content:

    Ambrosian Chants

  1. Lucernarium: Paravi lucernam Christo meo
  2. Psalmellus: Tui sunt celi et terra
  3. Ingressa: Lux fulgebit hodie super nos
  4. Angelorum laus: Gloria in excelsis Deo
  5. Psalmellus: Tecum principium in die virtutis tue
  6. Alleluia verse: V. Hodie in Bethlehem puer natus est
  7. Offertory: Ecce apertum est templum tabernaculi
  8. Canticum: Ecce quam bonum et jocundum
  9. Offertory: Hec dicit Dominus
  10. Responsory: Congratulamini mihi omnes qui diligitis Dominum

Playing time: 70' 43"

Performers:
Ensemble Organum
Lycourgos Angelopoulos, Josep Benet, Malcolm Bothwell, Josep Cabré, Laurence Brisset, Soeur Marie Keyrouz, Marie-France Leclercq, Florence Limon, Pasquale Mourey, Pascale Poulard, Antoine Sicot.
Marcel Pérès, dir.

Recording site and date:
Unknown [1988];
Rel. 1989, 1999 & 2003 (serie 195)

Excerpts:
[1], [3], [5] Harmonia Mundi "Century" HMX 290 8164 [CD] A History of Music, vol. 2: L'étonnante diversité des répertoires pré-grégorien / The astonishing diversity of pre-gregorian repertories - Le Chant des premiers chrétiens / Chant of the Early Christians

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 13/2-447 (November / December 1989)
Télérama: (June 1989)

Comments:
Information from CD.
Commonly known as Ambrosian chant....

Some other recordings:

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In Dulci Jubilo - Alberto Turco
Naxos 8.553502
Ambrosian Chants
Polifonica Ambrosiana - Giuseppe Biella
Vox 343 [3 LPs]

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