Gautier de Coincy

Gautier de Coincy
Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame
Alla Francesca
Opus 111 30-146

Contents:

  1. S'amour dont sui espris (voice, fiddle, flute, drum)
  2. Entendez tuit ensemble (2 voices)
  3. Ma viële (voice, fiddle)
  4. D'une amour quoie et serie (bagpipes, rebec, hurdy-gurdy)
  5. Quant ces flouretes florir voi (2 voices, double pipe)
  6. Hui matin a l'ajournee (voice, fiddle, harp, recorder)
  7. Roÿne celestre (voice, fiddle)
  8. Efforcier m'estuet ma voiz (flute, fiddle, harp, drum)
  9. Pour conforter mon cuer et mon courage (voice)
  10. Amours qui bien set enchanter (voice, flute, cymbals)
  11. Puisque voi la fleur novele (bagpipes, cymbals, jingles)
  12. Marions nous; Qui que face (2 voices, harp, fiddle, drum)
  13. Mere Dieu, Virge senee (3 voices)
  14. Por mon chief reconforter (hurdy-gurdy, rebec, flute)

Performers: Emmanuel Bonnardot (voice, fiddle, rebec, jingles), Pierre Hamon (flute, bagpipes, double pipe, bamboo flute, three-holed flute, six-holed flute, frame drum, voice), Brigitte Lesne (voice, harp, hurdy-gurdy, small cymbals, frame drum), Catherine Sergent (voice)

Playing time: 63'

Recording date: April 1995

Compilation:
Opus 111 OPS 354 [CDx3] La Musique du moyen-âge
Opus 111 OPS 2003 [CDx2] Elevation
Naïve NC 40011 [CDx2 + book] Richard Coeur de Lion – Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame

Excerpts:
[3] Ambroisie AM 195 [CD] Le Mystère des Templiers

The program forms a cycle of compositions by Gautier de Coincy (1177/78-1236), part of a larger literary work designed to chronical the miracles of the Virgin. This was one of the more celebrated works of the period, suriving on more than 80 manuscripts, and apparently forming part of the inspiration for the presently more famous Cantigas from Spain. Some songs use melodies derived from other sources, while others are apparently original. Gautier became a monk as a teen, and was abbot in Soissons by 1233.

Reissued in Opus 111 2003 and Opus 111 30-354.

Other recordings of this music:

Songs of Angels
Songs of ectasy by Gautier de Coincy
New London Consort - Philip Pickett
Decca 460 794
Coincy: Miracles of Notre-Dame
Harp Consort - Andrew Lawrence-King
Harmonia Mundi USA 907317
Étoile du Nord
Gauthier de Coinci et le miracle médiéval
Anne Azéma / Shira Kammen
Calliope 9525
Gautier de Coinci / XIIIe siècle
Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame
Ensemble Alegria
Pierre Vérany 794113
Gautier de Coincy
Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame
Ensemble Guillaume de Machaut de Paris
Arion 38 347 (LP)

And a broader program, emphasizing somewhat later French music of similar inspiration:

Rosarius
Chants religieux en langue d'oïl
Diabolus in Musica - Antoine Guerber
Studio SM 2886

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Todd M. McComb