The Canterbury Pilgrims
- The Canterbury Pilgrims
- Music for Chaucer's Prologue
Opus Anglicanum
Past Times 3184
Herald HAVPCD 236
Contents:
- Sumer is icumen in (English, 14th Century)
- Reading: The Prologue, first part
- In Rama sonat gemitus (Anon, 12th Century)
- Solemne canticum (Sequence for St Thomas)
- Thomas gemma Cantuariensis/ Thomas caesus (English 14th
Century)
- Reading: The Prologue, second part
- L'homme arme (French, 14th Century)
- Reading: The Knight, the Squire
- Amor mi fa cantar (Italian, 14th Century)
- Dame, de qui toute (Guillaume de Machaut, 1300-1377)
- Alma redemptoris mater (Hermannus Contractus, 1013-1054)
- Reading: The Prioress
- Ave regina caelorum (Lionel Power, c.1370-1445)
- Reading: The Monk
- Tosto che l'alba (Ghirardello de Firenze, fl.1375))
- Douce dame jolie (Machaut)
- Reading: The Merchant
- Tant doucement (Machaut)
- Reading: The Clerk, the Franklin
- Vos qui admirimini (Philippe de Vitry, 1291-13161)
- Reading: The Sailor, the Wife of Bath
- Io son un pellegrin (Giovanni da Florentia, fl.1350)
- Comment qu'a moy (Machaut)
- Reading: The Priest, the Ploughman
- Beata progenies (Lionel Power)
- Angelus ad virginem (English, 14th Century)
- Reading: The Miller
- Questa fanciull' amor (Francesco Landini, 1325-1397)
- Reading: The Pardoner
- Sub Arturo plebs (J Alanus, c.1370)
- Reading: The Host
- Sanctus and Benedictus (English, c.1375)
- Reading: The Journey begins
- Sumer is icumen in (English, 14th Century)
Playing time: 78' 40"
Performers:
Opus Anglicanum
John Touhey (reader), Stephen Tilton (counter tenor), James Gilchrist
(tenor), William Lee (tenor), Roland Robertson (baritone), John
Rowlands-Pritchard (bass)
Recording site and date:
Dorchester Abbey, Oxon, UK [11/1994];
Rel. 1995 (Past Times), 1999 (Herald)
Comments:
Information from owned CD. Called "Songs of the Canterbury
Tales - with readings in modern English from the Prologue" on
Past Times release.
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Jorge Salazar