Legends of Nicholas
- Legends of Nicholas
- Medieval Chant and Polyphony
Anonymous 4
Harmonia Mundi HMU 907232
Contents
Legends of St. Nicholas (from various sources)
- Hymn: Intonent hodie
- Conductus: Exultemus et letemur
- Conductus: Gaudens in Domino
- Reading: Seint Nicholas was borne in the citee of Patras
- Responsory: Confessor dei nicholaus
- Conductus: Cantu mirro, summa laude
- Song: Sainte nicholaes
- Reading: Whanne the bisshop of the citee of Myre deied
- Conductus: Nicholai presulis
- Hymn: Cum quidam fluctuantia
- Conductus: Novus presul prodiit
- Song: Sainte nicholaes
- Reading: All the province of Seint Nicholas suffered gret peyne
for hunger
- Hymn: Plaudat letitia
- Motet: Salve cleri speculum / Save iubar presulum / [Sospitati]
/ [Sospitati]
- Song: Sainte nicholaes
- Reading: A worschipfull man hadde thre doughtres virgines
- Conductus: Fulget nicolaus
- Responsory: Ex eius tumba / Prosa: Sospitati dedit egros
- Conductus: Gaudens in domino
- Reading: And whanne our Lorde lust to take Seint Nicholas oute
of this worlde
- Motet: Psallat chorus / Eximie pater / [Aptatur]
- Conductus: Nicholae presulum
- Conductus: Nicholae pontifex
Sources:
All the works on this recording were transcribed by Anonymous 4
from original sources, except "Salve cleri speculum"
which is from Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century, vol.
XV, edited by Frank Ll, Harrison, texts edited and translated
by Peter Lefferts - Editions l'Oiseau-Lyre, 1981; and the readings,
which are from Three lives from the Gilte Legende, edited
by Richard Hamer, - Universitätsverlag C. Winter-Heidelberg.
Playing time: 69' 46"
Performers:
Anonymous 4
Ruth Cunningham, Marsha Genensky, Susan Hellauer, Johanna Maria
Rose
Recording site and date:
Mont La Salle Chapel, Christian Brothers Retreat, Napa, California,
USA [03/19998]
Excerpts:
[19] Harmonia mundi HMX 2907546 [CD] Four
Centuries of Chant
Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 77/921-116 (Awards 1999 issue)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 23/2-415 (November/December 1999)
Goldberg (#-p.): 9-84 (winter 1999)
Comments:
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