Carmina Burana

Carmina Burana
Le Grand Mystère de la Passion – The Great Mystery of the Passion
Ensemble Organum – Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi HMC40 1323 / 24 [Cass. x2]
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901323 / 24 [CDx2]
Harmonia Mundi HMA 1901323 / 24 [CDx2]
Harmonia Mundi HMG 501323 / 24 [CDx2]

Contents:

    CD-1

    Procession: Entry of the Celebrants
  1. Hymn Vexilla regis

    2. Preparation and procession for palm Sunday
  2. Antiphon Cum appropinquaret Dominus Jerosolymam
  3. Antiphon Cum audisset populus
  4. Hymn Gloria laus

    5. Mary Magdalene the sinner
  5. Mary Magdalene Mundi delectatio
  6. The intervention of the Merchant / Mary Magdalene Michi confer, venditor
  7. The first intervention of the Angel O Maria Magdalena
  8. The intervention of the Lover / The Courtesans Wol dan, minnekliche chint
  9. The second intervention of the Angel O Maria Magdalena
  10. A Courtesan Mundi delectatio
  11. The third intervention of the Angel O Maria Magdalena
  12. The remorses of Mary Magdalene Heu, vita preterita
  13. The fourth intervention of the AngelO Maria Magdalena
  14. The renouncement of Mary Magdalene Hinc, ornatus seculi

    15. In Simon's House – The absolution of Mary Magdalene
  15. Chanters: Responsory Accessit ad pedes Iesu
  16. Mary Magdalene's prayer Iesus troest der sele min
  17. Jesus: The absolution of Mary Magdalene Fides tua salvum te fecit
  18. Lamentations of Mary Magdalene on her sins Awe, awe

    19. The Resurrection of Lazarus
  19. Burial procession: Antiphon Ego sum resurrectio
  20. The Resurrection of Lazarus
  21. The Profession of Lazarus: Responsory Si ambulem in medio umbre mortis

    22. The betrayal of Judas
  22. The betrayal of Judas O pontifices, o viri magni consilii

    23. Procession before mass
  23. Responsory Ingrediente Domino

    24. Palm Sunday Mass
  24. Introit Domine, ne longe facias
  25. Gradual Tenuisti manum dexteram meam

    26. CD-2

  26. Tract Deus, Deus meus

    27. The Passion of Our Saviour Jesus Christ
  27. Jesus on the mount of Olives
  28. The arrest of Jesus
  29. Prayer of holy women: Responsory Angelis suis
  30. The denial of Peter Comprehendentes autem eum

    31. The trial
  31. The councel of chief priests Collegerunt pontifices
  32. Responsory Astiterunt reges terrae
  33. Jesus in front of Pilate and Herod
  34. Responsory Astiterunt reges terrae
  35. Jesus in front of Pilate

    36. The flagellation of Jesus
  36. Responsory Omnes amici mei
  37. The last dialogue between Pilate and Jesus

    38. The remorse of Judas
  38. The remorse of Judas Penitet me graviter

    39. Lamentations of the women of Jerusalem on the way of the Cross
  39. Lamentations of the women of Jerusalem on the way of the Cross

    40. Golgotha
  40. The crucifixion
  41. Lamentations of Marys Awe, awe
  42. Flete fideles
  43. Mary Planctus ante nescia
  44. John and the last words of Jesus Christ

    45. The deposition
  45. Hymn Crux fidelis

Performers:
Ensemble Organum
Marcel Pérès (narrator), François Fauché (Jesus), Josep Benet Caiaphas), Josep Cabré (The Priest, Longinus), Astrid Maugard (Mary), Pasquale Mourey (Martha, a courtesan), Bruno Boterf (Judas), Cyrille Gerstenhaber (Mary Magdalena), Dominique Visse (the Angel), Antoine Sicot (the merchant), Philippe Cantor (Pilate), Samuel Husser (the Lover, John), Florence Limon (a courtesan, the maid-servant), Malcolm Bothwell (Peter, Herode), Laurence Brisset, Pascale Poulard
Marcel Pérès, dir.

Playing time: 70' 54" + 77' 40" = 2h 28' 34'

Recording site and date:
Abbaye d'Ambronay, France [11/1989];
Rel. 1990 (HMC), 1999 (HMA)

Excerpts:
[13] Harmonia mundi "Passerelles" HMB 590 017 / 18 [CDx2 + book] Les Contre-ténors - Mythes et Réalités (with a book by Peter Giles)

Reviewed in:
Le Monde de la Musique: (Jul. 1990)
Répertoire: (Jul. 1990)

Comments:
Information from Nathan Wilkes with additions by Pierre-F. Roberge

Nathan Wilkes

This set consists of an independent section of the Carmina Burana manuscript, a grand Passion Play. This is the largest single block of the manuscript, and also one of the few sections which is original rather than contrafactum based on compositions from elsewhere. In some ways, it seems to have an independent existence and to have been included as an appendix, although it does not survive elsewhere.

It the larger of the two passions at the end of the Carmina Burana manuscript, and is sung in Latin and Low German.

Other dramatic cycles from Ensemble Organum:

Le Jeu des Pèlerins D'Emmaüs
Drame liturgique du XIIe siècle
Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi 901347
Laudario di Cortona
Un mystère du XIIIe siècle
Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi 901582

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