Music of the Early Middle Ages, vol. 2

History of European Music - Part I: Music of the Early Middle Ages, vol. 2
(aka L'Héritage des Troubadours: Trouvères - Minnesänger - Villancico ibérique - Chants anglais - Polyphonie précoce)
Schola Cantorum Londiniensis - Edgar Fleet & Denis Stevens, dirs.
Orpheus (Musical Heritage Society) OR 350 [LP-USA]
Harmonia mundi HMU 442 [LP-France]
Harmonia mundi "Musique d'abord" HMA 40 442 [Cass. - France]

Contents:

    Guillaume le Vinier:
  1. -19i. Lai (or descort): Esprit d'ire
    Spervogel:
  2. -20a. Minnelied: Swa eyn vriund
    Walther von der Vogelweide:
    -20b. Bar: Nu al' erst
    Neidhart von Reuenthal:
    -20c. Minnelied: Der may
    -20d. Bar: Winder wie ist

    3. Anon., 13th c.:
  3. -21a. Lauda: Gloria in cielo
    -21b. Ballata: A tutta gente
    -21c. Modified ballata: Santo Lorenzo

    4. Alfonso le Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria
  4. -22a. Villancico (cantiga 4): A Madre do que livrou
    -22b. Villancico (cantiga 3): Mais nos faz
    -22c. Villancico (cantiga 114): Aque serven

    5. St. Godric:
  5. -23a. English song: Sainte Marie
    Anon., 13th c.:
    -23b. English song: Worldes blis

    6. Hans Sachs:
  6. -24. Lied: Lob sei Gott Vater

    7. ----
    Anon.:
  7. -25a. Parallel organum: Nos qui vivimus
    -25b 1. Parallel organum: Sit gloria Domini
    -25b 2. Parallel organum: Rex coeli Domine
    Anon., 12th c.:
    -25c. Hymn to St. Magnus: Nobilis, humilis

    8. Anon., 11th c.:
  8. -26a. Free organum, Kyrie trope: Cunctipotens genitor
    Anon.:
    -26b. Free organum (Feast of St. Stephan): Ut tuo propiatus
    -26c. Free organum (Easter Monday): Alleluia: Angelus Domini

    9. Anon., 12th c.:
  9. -27a. Melismatic organum, Trope of the gradual for Christmas: Viderunt Hemanuel
    -27b. Melismatic organum, Kyrie trope: Cunctipotens genitor
  10. -28a. Gregprian plainsong: Benedicamus Domino
    -28b. Organum (à 2), School of Compostella: Benedicamus Domino
    -28c. Organum (à 2), School of Notre-Dame: Benedicamus Domino
    Anon., 13th c.:
    -28d. Clausula, School of Notre-Dame: Benedicamus Domino
    -28e. Clausula (orig. from Florence), School of Notre-Dame: Benedicamus Domino
    -28f. Motet, School of Notre-Dame: Domino fidelium
    -28g. Motet, School of Notre-Dame: Dominator Domine
    -28h 1. Clausula, School of Notre-Dame: Domino
    -28h 2. Motet adapted from the preceeding, School of Notre-Dame: Pucelete bele / Je languis

Playing time: 24' 18" + 21' 27" = 45' 45"

Performers:
Schola Cantorum Londiniensis & Edgar Fleet (tenor), John Noble (baritone), Leslie Fyson (tenor), Christopher Keyte (baritone), Wilfred Brown (tenor), John Frost (bass), Geoffrey Shaw (bass), Nigel Rogers (tenor), Ian Partridge (tenor), Gerald English (tenor), Francis Burgess (bass), Harold Lester (harpsichord), Jane Ryan (viola da gamba) - Edgar Fleet, dir.

Recording site and date:
Trinity Church, London, England [1969 or prior]

Re-issue: The Harmonia mundi edition was titled "L'Héritage des troubadours - Trouvères, Minnesanger, Villancico ibérique, Chants anglais, Polyphonie précoce". It was later re-issued in the collection "Musique d'abord" as HMA 441.

Compilation:
Orpheus (Musical Heritage Society) OR 349 / 351 History of European Music - Part I: Music of the Early Middle Ages.

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 214-23 (february 1977)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments: Information from owned Harmonia mundi recording. The numbered items listed here are found in chapters 1 and 2, pp. 10-17 "Historical Anthology of Music", (HAM) by T. Davison and Willi Apel (2 vols., Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1949)
The content of this LP is not the same but similar to Pleiades P 248 Historical Anthology of Music: Early medieval music (Part 2)

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