Trésors – Moyen-Âge

Trésors – Moyen-Âge
Musique sacrée et profane du XIIe au XVe siècle
Various performers
RCA "Red Seals" 82876 60986 2 [CDx4]

Contents:

    CD-1

    Conon de Béthune
  1. Chanson: Tant ai amé c'or me convient haïr

    2. Anon.
  2. Motet: S'on me regarde / Prennés i garde / Hé mi enfant

    3. Anon.
  3. Estampie

    4. Adam de la Halle
  4. Rondeau: Bonne amourete me tient gai

    5. Adam de la Halle
  5. Instrumental piece

    6. Adam de la Halle
  6. Rondeau: Or est Baiars en la pasture

    7. Anon.
  7. Estampie

    8. Jehannot de Lescurel
  8. Rondeau, instr. pieces
    1. (Instrumental piece)
    2. Rondeau: Diex, quant la verrai (voice, fiddle)
    3. (Instrumental piece)
    4. Rondeau: Bonnement m'agrée
    5. Rondeau: Douce dame, je vous pri
    6. (Instrumental piece)
    7. Rondeau: Guilleurs me font mout souvent
    8. (Instrumental piece)

    9. Bertran de Born
  9. Rassa, tan creis e monta e pola

    10. Anon., Iceland
  10. Leikr elds ok ísa "The song of Fire and Ice"
  11. Senn vóru æsir allir á þingi "Baldr's Dreams"
  12. Ragnarok "The End of the Gods"

    13. H.C. Hartman (text) / Bären Gässlin (music, after motifs by Machaut)
  13. Des Gwenc'hlan Prophesei

    14. H.C. Hartman & M. Korth (text, Jaidhofer's version of the Scottish ballad: Two Sisters) / Bären Gässlin (music)
  14. Zwei Schwestern

    15. H.C. Hartman, M. Korth & I. Schrempf (text, Jaidhofer's version of the Scottish ballad: King Henry) / Bären Gässlin (music)
  15. Herr Heinrich

    16. Anon. (text, from Danish folk ballad: Hr. Oluf rider om otte) / Bären Gässlin (music, after the Danish melody)
  16. Herr Oluf

    17. Bären Gässlin (music)
  17. Beiarblakk (instr.)

    18. Clemens Brentano (text, after old legends) / Bären Gässlin (music, after motifs by Scarlatti)
  18. Lore Lay

    19. CD-2

    Hildegard von Bingen
  19. Sequence to St. Rupert: O Ierusalem

    20. Realization: Elizabeth Gaver
  20. Instrumental piece

    21. Anon.
  21. Uterus hodie

    22. Anon.
  22. Benedicamus domino: Stirps Jesse florigeram

    23. Perotinus Magnus
  23. Graduale: Sederunt principes

    24. Hildegard von Bingen
  24. Antiphon: Cum processit factura digiti Dei

    25. Realization Elizabeth Gaver
  25. Instrumental piece

    26. Philippe de Vitry
  26. Motet: Petre Clemens, tam re quam nimine / Lugentium siccentur occuli plaudant senes
  27. Motet: Tribum, que non abhorruit / Quoniam secta latronum / Merito hec patimur
  28. Motet: Vos quid admiramini, virgines / Gratissima virginis species / Gaude gloriosa

    29. Anon (14th c., Bavaria)
  29. Dance-lai: Syon egredere nunc de cubilibus

    30. Perotinus
  30. Alleluja Nativitas

    31. Anon.
  31. The Agincourt Carol: Deo gracias Anglia

    32. CD-3

    Cerveri de Girona, 13th century
  32. Aisso es viadera

    33. Jaufre Rudel, 12th century
  33. Lanquan li jorn son lonc en mai

    34. Richard I, "Lionheart", end of the 12th century
  34. Ja nuls om pres non dira sa razon

    35. Neidhart von Reuental
  35. Wol dir liebe summerzeit

    36. Neidhart von Reuental
  36. Sinc eyn gulden boen

    37. Pseudo-Neidhart, 13th century
  37. Meienzeit

    38. Martin Codax, 13th century
  38. Mia yrmana fremosa

    39. Guillaume de Machaut
  39. Virelai: "Quant je suis mis"

    40. Li Roi de Navarre
  40. Chancon d'amour

    41. Guillaume de Machaut
  41. Virelai: "Dou Mal"

    42. Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame
  42. Kyrie Eleison

    43. Anon., french, ca 1300
  43. Saint Mary Hymn: "Ave virgo regia"

    44. Anon., french, 14th c.
  44. Agniaus dous

    45. Anon., Limoges, ca 1200
  45. Mary's hymn: "Ave Nobilis"

    46. Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame
  46. Ite Missa Est

    47. Guillaume Dufay
  47. Flos Florum

    48. Anon., England
  48. Edi be thu, heven-queene (instr.)
  49. Edi be thu, heven-queene

    50. Anon., England
  50. Ar ne kuth ich sorghe non

    51. Jean Legrant
  51. Rondeau; Las je ne puis

    52. Domenico de Piacenza
  52. Ballo: La figlia Guiliemino

    53. Anon.
  53. La Franchoise nouvelle

    CD-4

    Alfonso el Sabio: Cantigas de Santa Maria
  54. CSM 100: Santa Maria, strela do dia
  55. CSM 260: Dized', ai trobadores
  56. CSM 181: Pero que seja a gente

    57. Anon., Balkans and Ottoman Empire
  57. Una ramika de ruda

    58. Mediterranean
  58. Quien huviesse tal ventura
  59. Abenamar

    60. Anon., 13th c.: Kharjas in the Andalusian style
  60. Que faray, mamma
  61. Meu sidi Ibrahim
  62. Garid vos ay yermanellas

    63. Alfonso el Sabio: Cantigas de Santa Maria
  63. CSM 168: En todo logar a poder

    64. Anon., Ludus Danielis
  64. Rex Balthasar
  65. Vasa Templorum
  66. Conductus Danielis
  67. Conductus referentium uasa
  68. O hez!

    69. John Dunstable, Modena B MS:
  69. Isorythmic motet (à 4): Salve scema sanctitatis - Salve seruvus parvulorum - Cantant celi agmina

    70. Antonio Cornazano?, Vatican, Capp. 203, f. 34:
  70. Bassadanza: Collinetto I
  71. Bassadanza: Collinetto II

Sources, performers & recording site and date
See links below;
Rel.: 2004

Playing time: 72' 50" + 69' 23" + 73' 01" + 74' 18" = 4h 49' 32"

Excerpts (from original releases)
[1]-[8] Deutsche Harmonia mundi (EMI) 1C 157 1695013 (box), 1C 157 169501/3 1 (lps) [LPx3] Trouvères: Höfische Liebeslieder aus Nordfrankreich um 1175-1300
[9] Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG) 05472 77227 2 [CD] Dante und die Troubadours - Dante and the Troubadours
[10]-[12] Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG) 05472 77381 2 [CD] Edda - Myths from medieval Iceland
[13]-[18] Deutsche harmonia mundi (EMI) 069 99 948 2 [LP] Mythomania
[19]-[20] Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG) 05472 77381 2 [CD] O Jerusalem: A dedication ceremony of symphoniae
[21] Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG) 05472 77383 2 [CD] Aquitania: Christmas Music from Aquitanian Monasteries (12th century)
[22] Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG) 05472 77370 2 [CD] Shining Light: Musik aus Aquitanischen Klöstern (12. Jh.) - Music from Aquitanian Monasteries (12th century)
[23] Harmonia mundi (Fono-Verlagsgesellschaft) HM 25 147 [LP, 25cm] Musik an Notre Dame in Paris (um 1200) (II): Perotinus Magnus
[24]-[25] Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG) 05472 77320 2 [CD] Hildegard von Bingen: Gesänge der Ekstase - Canticles of Ecstasy
[26]-[28] Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG) RD 77 095 QA [CD] Philippe de Vitry 1291-1361: Mottetten und Lieder - Motets & Chansons
[29] Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG) 05472 77347 2 [CD] Visions from the Book
[30] Harmonia mundi (Fono-Verlagsgesellschaft) HM 25 143 [LP, 25cm] Musik an Notre Dame in Paris (um 1200) (I): Perotinus Magnus
[31] Harmonia mundi (BASF) 25 22 286-1 [LP] Love, lust piety and politics - Music of the English court from King Henry V to VIII
[32]-[38] Arte Nova Classics 74321 58968 2 [CD] Minnesänger, Troubadours, Trouvères
[39]-[46] Arte Nova Classics 74321 85289 2 [CD] Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame
[47] Arte Nova Classics 74321 92584 2 [CD] Cathedral Sounds - Dufay: Magnificat, Hymni, Motetti
[48]-[50] Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (EMI) 1 C 067 749 192 1 [LP] English Songs of the Middle Ages
[51]-[53], [70]-[71] Deutsche Harmonia mundi (EMI) 065-1 69 558-1 [LP] «A la Ferrarese» Bassadanze, Balli e Canzoni: Italienische instrumentalmusik der Frührenaissance
[54]-[56], [60]-[63] Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG) 05472 77173 2 [CD] Vox Iberica III: El Sabio - Gesänge für König Alfonso X. von Kastilien und León - Songs for King Alfonso X of Castille and León (1221-1284)
[57]-[59] Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG) 05472 77372 2 [CD] Sepharad: Songs of the Spanish Jews
[64]-[68] Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG) 05472 77395 2 [CD] Ludus Danielis – The Play of Daniel
[69] Harmonia mundi (BASF) 25 (or EA) 22 064-8 [LP] Dunstable und seine Zeit: Dunstable - Power - Cooke - Damett: Geistliche vokalmusik - Sacred vocal music

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Pierre-F. Roberge