Codex Las Huelgas

Codex Las Huelgas
Music from 13th Century Spain
Huelgas Ensemble - Paul Van Nevel
Sony Vivarte 53341 [CD]
Sony 0 71565 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Ex illustri nata prosapia
  2. Crucifigat omnes
  3. O Maria maris stella
  4. Ex agone sanguinis (instrumental)
  5. Belial vocatur
  6. Sanctus
  7. Agnus Dei
  8. Benedicamus Domino
  9. Flavit auster (instrumental)
  10. Eya mater
  11. Quis dabit capiti
  12. Casta catholica
  13. Homo miserabilis

Playing time: 55'

Recording date: October 1992; released: 1993

Compilation:
Sony Classic SBG 7478442 [CDx15] A secret Labyrinth

This recording includes instrumental support of the voices, and highlights some of the more idiomatic items from the various stylistic epochs represented in the large early 14th-century manuscript of Las Huelgas of Burgos.

Some other recordings devoted to this manuscript:

Vox Iberica II: Las Huelgas Codex
Sequentia
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77238
Fons luminis
Codex Las Huelgas
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Evidence Classics 051
Codex Las Huelgas
XIIIth century Spanish sacred vocal music
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Opus 111 30-68
Codex Huelgas - Poliphonia Inedita
Voces Huelgas - Luis Lozano Virumbrales
Sony "Hispánica" 60844
Unica Hispaniae
Alia Música - Miguel Sánchez
Harmonia Mundi "Ibèrica" 987021
Temple of Chastity
Codex Las Huelgas - Music from 13th century Spain
Mille Fleurs
Signum 043
Le Codex Las Huelgas
Chants polyphoniques espagnols du XIIIe siècle
Ensemble Tre Fontane / Dames de Choeur
Alba Musica 0397
Lux æterna
Les 4 planctus du Codex Las Huelgas - La messe des Défunts grégorienne
Ensemble Witiza - Luis Bárban
Musica Ficta 04/2002-01
O Maria Virgo
Las Huelgas 1300
Ensemble Kantika - Kristin Hoefener
Integral Classic 02
El Códice de las Huelgas (Secolo XII-XIV)
Colección de Música Antigua Española - 5
Choeurs de religieuses du Monastère cistercien de Santa Maria la Real de las Huelgas & Atrium Musicae - Gregorio Paniagua
Hispavox 8 (LP)

And finally, the beginning of a complete edition:

Las Huelgas Codex, Vol. 1
Armoniosoincanto - Franco Radicchia / Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino - Enrico Miaroma
Brilliant Classics 96619 [CDx2]

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Todd M. McComb