Hortus Deliciarum

Hortus Deliciarum
Hildegard von Bingen / Herrad von Landsberg
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Opus 111 30-220 [CD]
Opus 111 30-390 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Hymnaire de Paris: Enixa est puerpera (hymn)
  2. Herrad: Sol oritur occasus nescius (conductus)
  3. Hildegard: O rubor sanguinis (antiphon)
  4. Hildegard: Favus distillans Ursula virgo (responsory)
  5. Codex Engelberg: Hec est mater (trope)
  6. Herrad / Ms. de Florence: Leto leta concio (canon)
  7. Engelberg: Congaudeat turba fidelium (trope)
  8. Engelberg: Kyrie / Magne Deus (trope)
  9. Graduel de Paris: Dilexisti iustitiam (gradual)
  10. Herrad / St. Gall: Veri floris sub figura (conductus)
  11. Herrad: Primus parens hominum (hymn)
  12. St. Gall / Klosterneuburg: Offerentur regi virgines (offertory)
  13. Engelberg: Sanctus / Phos, patris karitatis (trope)
  14. Engelberg: Agnus Dei / Ave Maria (trope)
  15. Engelberg / Bréviaire de Cologne: Iube Domine (lectio)
    Antiphonaire de Paris: Navigantes inde sursum (responsory)
    Engelberg / Cologne: Beata virgo (lectio)
    Antiphonaire de Paris: Sanctis Rome visitatis (responsory)
  16. Hildegard: Cum vox sanguinis (hymn)
  17. Engelberg: Procedentem sponsum de thalamo (trope)
  18. Graduel de Paris: Diapente et diatesseron (exercise)
  19. Hymnaire de Paris: Stephani primi martiris (hymn)
  20. Graduel de Paris: Alleluia / In Maria benignitas (alleluia)
    Hildegard: Alleluia / O virga mediatrix (alleluia)
  21. Engelberg: Ite iam sine tristicia (trope)

Performers: Emmanuelle Gal, Anne Guidet, Lucie Jolivet, Nicole Jolliet, Brigitte Le Baron, Brigitte Lesne, Catherine Schroeder, Catherine Sergent

Playing time: 67'

Recording date: January 1998 (Fontevraud)

Excerpts:
[1], [3], [16] Ambroisie AM 195 [CD] Le Mystère des Templiers

Besides the now-common works of Hildegard, the present program includes music associated with another major female figure of the era, Herrad of Hohenburg (d.1195). She was also an abbess, and is best know for her massive illustrated encyclopedia of human knowledge Hortus Deliciarum (also known as Herrad von Landsberg). The designated items in the present program are taken from her compilation, but it is unknown whether she actually composed any of them (in some cases at least, it is clear she was compiler only). A broader range of repertory fills out the program, including even exercises (track #18).

A recording devoted to another medieval female composer in the monophonic idiom, Birgitta Birgersdotter (1303-1373):

Cantus Sororum
Brigittine songs from Naantali Convent
Vox Silentii
Proprius PRCD 2010

The present ensemble's others programs, all featuring an all-female chorus:

Jerusalem
Chant grégorien et premières polyphonies du Ve au XIIIe siècle
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Opus 111 30-291
Quem quæritis
Drames liturgiques au Moyen Age
Annuntiatio et Visitatio / Pastores / Planctus Mariæ / Resurrectio
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Opus 111 30-269
Eya Pueri
Easo / Discantus
Opus 111 30-207
Dame de flors
École Notre-Dame de Paris
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Opus 111 30-175
Eya Mater
Chant grégorien / Polyphonies des XIe-XIIe siècles
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Opus 111 30-143
Campus Stellae
Saint-Martial de Limoges / Santiago de Compostela
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Opus 111 30-102
Codex Las Huelgas
XIIIth century Spanish sacred vocal music
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Opus 111 30-68
Sur la terre comme au ciel
Un jardin au Moyen-Âge
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne / Alla Francesca - Pierre Hamon
Jade 198 796
Compostelle
Le Chant de l'Étoile
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Jade 301 654
Mare nostrum
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Jade 301 685
Universi populi
Chants sacrés à Prague et en Bohême à l'aube de la Renaissance
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Zig-Zag Territoires 060601
L'Argument de beauté
Polyphonies sacrées de Gilles Binchois
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Aeon 1096
Un chemin d'étoiles
Chansons des Pélerins de Saint-Jacques du Moyen-Age à nos jours
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Bayard Musique 308 447
Santa Maria
Chants à la Vierge dans l'Espagne du XIIIe siècle
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Bayard Musique 308 489
Nova Sonet Harmonia
Huitième centenaire des dominicains
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Bayard Musique 308 556

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Todd M. McComb