Monastic Song

Monastic Song

12th Century Monophonic Chant - Peter Abelard / Codex Las Huelgas
Theatre of Voices - Paul Hillier, dir.
Harmonia Mundi USA HMU 90 7209

Contents:

Peter Abélard:

1. O quanta qualia
2. Virgines caste
3. Planctus cigne "Clangam filii"

Anon., Codex Las Huelgas:

4. Quis dabit
5. O monialis
6. Rex obiit
7. Plange, Castella

Peter Abélard:

8. De profundis
9. Epithalamica
10. Planctus David "Dolorum solatium"

Playing time: 66' 05"

Performers:
Theatre of Voices [Alan Bennett (tenor), Paul Elliott (tenor), Moira Smiley (mezzo-soprano), Paul Hillier (baritone), Wendie Gillespie (vielle)] & amp; The Pro Arte Singers [Corey Carleton, Sara Colburn, Meredith Ellis, Christine Howlett, Carolina Rodriguez, Beth Sinton, Rachelle Skloff, Andrianna Smela, Moira Smiley, Kristen Toedtman, Catherine Webster, Noa Zechoval, Kevin Bailey, Daniel Carberg, Daniel Cole, Pablo Cora, Paul Ryan, Jonathan Shull, Sumner Thompson] - Paul Hiller, dir.

Recording site and date:
Auer Recital Hall, School of Music, Bess Meshulam Simon Music Recital Center, Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington, Indiana, USA [05/1997]

Hillier's earlier, similar program:

Troubadour Songs and Medieval Lyrics

Hillier / Stubbs / Kiesel
Hyperion 66094

Other recordings devoted specifically to Peter Abélard (1079-1142):

12th-Century Chant

Abelard: hymns and sequences for Heloise
Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge - Mary Berry
Herald 168

Abélard: Planctus Jephta, Planctus David

Studio der Frühen Musik
EMI "Reflexe" 1C 063-30 123 (LP)

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 76/904-82 (september 1998)
Diapason (#-p.): 451-142 (september 1998)
Fanfare (#-p.) 22/1-96 (sept./oct. 1998):

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