Dame de flors

Dame de flors

École Notre-Dame de Paris
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Opus 111 30-175

Contents:

1. Conductus: Veris ad imperia (8 voices)
2. Conductus: Ave, nobilis, venerabilis (1, 2x2 voices)
3. Motet-conductus: Glorieuse deu amie / Veritatem (3 voices)
4. Conductus: Flos in monte cernitur (2, 3 voices)
5. Motet-conductus: Flos de spina rumpitur / Regnat (8 voices)
6. Conductus: Fons preclusus (3 voices)
7. Organum: Benedicamus domino (8 voices)
8. Motet: Tu decus es / O Maria, beata gentrix / Nostrum (3 voices)
   Motet: Qui la vaudroit / Qui damors / Qui longuement / Nostrum (4 voices)
9. Rondeau: Novum ver oritur (1, 8 voices)
   Rondeau: Illuxit lux (2, 8 voices)
10. Prosa: Flos de spina procreatur (voice)
11. Conductus: Veri floris sub figura (8, 3 voices)
12. Motet: Candida virginitas / Flos filius eius (2 voices)
    Motet: Stirps Iesse / Virga cultus nescia / Flos filius (3 voices)
    Motet: Castrum pudicicie / Virgo viget melius / Flos filius (3 voices)
    Motet: Plus belle que flor / Quant revient / L'autrier joer / Flos filius (4/5 voices)
13. Conductus: Flos de spina procreatur (2x4 voices)
14. Motet: Salve, virgo virginum / Salve, sancta parens / Omnes (8 voices)
15. Motet: Ave rosa novella / Flos filius (1, 8 voices)
16. Motet: Nobili precinitur / Flos de virga nascitur / Eius (2, 3 voices)
17. Motet: A la clarté qui tout enlumina / Et illumina (2 voices)
18. Conductus: O lilium convallium (8 voices)
19. Conductus: O Maria, stella maris (2 voices)
20. Organum: Stirps Iesse (2x3, 8 voices)

Performers: Anne Guidet, Claire Jéquier, Lucie Jolivet, Brigitte Le Baron, Brigitte Lesne, Anne Quentin, Catherine Schroeder, Catherine Sergent

Playing time: 59'

Recording date: September 1996

Reissued in Opus 111 2003.

Perhaps fittingly for this leading all-female medieval vocal ensemble, the present program of music from the Notre Dame school of polyphony is centered on pieces devoted explicitly to the Virgin Mary.

A similar program by a similar ensemble:

Duce Creature

Motets, rondels et conduits du XIIIème siè de provenance anglaise
Ensemble De Caelis - Laurence Brisset
Studio SM 2854

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