Cistercian Chant
- Chants des voûtes cisterciennes
- Les Anges et la Lumière
Ensemble Venance Fortunat - Anne-Marie Deschamps
L'Empreinte digitale 13006
L'Empreinte digitale 13073
Contents:
- Alleluia concinat
- Lux fulgebit
- Alleluia! Karitate
- Lux illuxit gratiosa
- Alleluia! Dulcis spina
- Lux orta est justo
- Alleluia! dies sanctificatus
- Benedicite Dominum
- Kyrie rex angelorum
- Sequella sur l'Alleluia Karitate
- Stetit angelus
- Alleluia! Angelus domini
- De angelis
- Alleluia! Angelus domini
- Angelus Domini descendit de celo
- In conspectu angelorum
- Alleluia! In conspectu angelorum
- Gloria
Performers: Catherine Heugel-Petit (soprano), Dominique Thibaudat
(soprano), Françoise Levy (mezzosoprano), Eric
Trémolières (tenor), Gabriel Lacascade (baritone),
Antoine Sicot (bass), Philippe Desandre (bass)
Playing time: 68'
Recording date: 1990
This recording centers around the Clairvaux Abbot, Saint Bernard
(1090-1153). He was one of the dominant personalities of his age.
The opening item is fully polyphonic, while the rest is essentially
monophonic and drawn from chant (and some organum) styles of the
9th through 14th centuries.
Excerpts:
[5], [7], [12], [14] L'Empreinte Digitale
ED 13150 Alleluia - Anthologie de la musique sacrée
occidentale
Some other recordings devoted to Cistercian chant:
- Chant Cistercien - XIIe siècle
- Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi 901392
- Invisible.. aus dem Verborgenen
- Gesänge der Zisterzienserinnen
Per-Sonat - Sabine Lutzenberger
Christophorus 77430
- Civitas Dei
- L'Office cistercien de la Dédicace
Choeur Grégorien de Paris - Jaan-Eik Tulve
Pierre Vérany 798031
- Hymns for the First Vespers at the Feast of the Nativity of
the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Heinrich Isaac Ensemble Karlsrühe - Hans-Georg Renner
Christophorus 77199
- Bernard de Clairvaux
- Medieval music of the Cistercians
Ensemble Officium - Wilfried Rombach
Christophorus 77301
- Les voix Cisterciennes
- 900 ans d'histoire
Various ensembles
Bayard Musique 3168 [CDx3]
The next recording by the present ensemble:
- Chants mystiques des abbayes cisterciennes
- Ensemble Venance Fortunat - Anne-Marie Deschamps
L'Empreinte digitale 13106
And recording devoted to related Dominican chant:
- O spem miram
- Ufficio e Messa per S.Domenico secondo il canto dell'Ordine dei
Predicatori - secolo XIII
Ensemble Cantilena Antiqua - Stefano Albarello
Symphonia 96145
Finally, something somewhat related:
- Terra Adriatica
- Chants sacrés des terres croates & italiennes au
Moyen-Âge
Ensemble Dialogos - Livjanic
L'Empreinte Digitale 13107
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Todd M. McComb