Fragments

Fragments
Theatre of Voices - Paul Hillier
Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7276

Contents:

    Italy

  1. Anon., 13th c.: Laude novella
  2. Anon., 13th c.: Venite a laudare
  3. Zachara: Credo Deus Deorum
  4. Perugia: Ave sancta mundi salus / Agnus Dei
  5. Anon., 14th c.: Benedicamus

    6. Greece

  6. Anon., 14th c.: Sanctus
  7. John Plousiadenos (c.1429-1500): Communion Hymn for Mid-Pentecost
  8. Plousiadenos: Canon for the Council of Florence
  9. Manuel Gazes (fl.c.1425): Enite ton Kychyrion

    10. Russia

  10. Anon., 17th c.: Dnes Hristos
  11. Anon., 17th c.: Blazhen muzh
  12. Anon., 17th c.: Vozbrannoy voyevode
  13. Anon., 17th c.: Izhe heruvimi

    14. England

  14. Anon., 13th-14th c.: Worldes Blis ne Last No Throwe
  15. Anon., 13th-14th c.: Beata Viscera
  16. Anon., 13th-14th c.: Salve sancta parens (quadruple motet)
  17. Anon., 13th-14th c.: Salve virgo virginum
  18. Anon., 13th-14th c.: Virgo Maria, patrem parit (quadruple motet)
  19. Anon., 13th-14th c.: Sanctus
  20. Anon., 13th-14th c.: Alleluia Nativitas

    21. France

  21. Perotin: Viderunt omnes

Performers: Steven Rickards (countertenor), Paul Elliott (tenor), Aaron Sheehan (tenor), Wolodymyr Smishkewych (tenor), Andrew Hendricks (baritone), Paul Hillier (baritone)

Playing time: 72'

Recording date: June 2000 (Neustadt-Mandelsloh, Germany);
Rel.: 2002

Excerpts:
[21] Harmonia Mundi "Century" HMX 290 8167 [CD] A History of Music, vol. 5: La naissance de la Polyphonie / The Birth of Polyphony

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