Machaut: Motets / Music from the Ivrea Codex

Machaut: Motets / Music from the Ivrea Codex
The Clerks' Group - Edward Wickham
Signum 011

Contents:

  1. Anon. Ivrea: Sanctus "Sanans fragilia" (4 voices)
  2. "Chipre" Ivrea: Kyrie (3 voices)
  3. Anon. Ivrea: Gloria "Et verus homo" (3 voices)
  4. Machaut: Dame, je sui / Fins cuers doulz (3 voices)
  5. Machaut: Trop plus est bele / Biauté parée de valour (3 voices)
  6. Machaut: Lasse! / Se j'aim mon loyal ami (3 voices)
  7. Anon. Ivrea: Credo (3 voices)
  8. Machaut: Tu qui gregem / Plange, regni respublica (4 voices)
  9. Machaut: Christe qui lux / Veni creator spiritus (4 voices)
  10. Machaut: Felix virgo / Inviolata genitrix (4 voices)
  11. Anon. Ivrea: Sanctus (3 voices)
  12. Anon. Ivrea: Clap, clap / Sus Robin (3 voices)
  13. Machaut: Qui es promesse / Ha! Fortune (3 voices)
  14. Machaut: Martyrum / Diligenter inquiramus (3 voices)
  15. Machaut: Amours / Faus samblant (3 voices)
  16. Anon. Ivrea: Post missarum sollempnia / Post misse modulamina (4 voices)

Performers: Lucy Ballard (alto), William Missin (alto), Stephen Harrold (tenor), Matthew Vine (tenor), Edward Wickham (baritone)

Playing time: 56'

Recording date: May 1998 (West Wratting)

Along with a fine selection of Machaut motets, the present collection includes a particularly stimulating range of music from the Ivrea Codex, one of the most important sources of French liturgical polyphony during the Ars Nova.

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Todd M. McComb