Musica in tempore Caroli IV

Musica in tempore Caroli IV
Symposium Musicum & Prague Madrigal Singers
Supraphon 11 2213-2 211

Contents:

    Anon., British Museum MS, Add. 29987:
  1. Folk dance: Saltarello

  2. Mülich von Prag:
  3. Got, dine wunder manigfalt

  4. Heinrich von Mügeln:
  5. Wilt du mentschen art

  6. Anon., Vysehrad Collection:
  7. Folk dance: Czaldy waldy

  8. Anon., Vyssi Brod MS:
  9. Otep myrrhy

  10. Anon., Austrian Nat. Lib. MS 4558:
  11. Drevo se listem odievá

  12. Anon., British Museum MS, Add. 29987:
  13. German dance: Nemecky
  14. Folk dance: Saltarello

  15. Anon.:
  16. Andelíku rozkochany

  17. Anon., Prague Codex:
  18. Je fortune
  19. Vaer rouwe in dander huys
  20. Tant plus vos voye

  21. Francesco Landini:
  22. Già ebbi libertate

  23. Donatus de Florentia:
  24. Je porta my ablement

  25. Anon., Prague Codex:
  26. In vrouden willen
  27. O sinne min

  28. Guillaume de Machaut:
  29. Dame je weil endurer
  30. Quant je suis mis au retour

  31. Anon., Prague State Lib. MS:
  32. Hymn: Lux vera lucis radium

  33. Anon., Innsbruck MS:
  34. Gradual: Viderunt omnes

  35. Anon., Vyssi Brod MS:
  36. Conductus: En aetas jam aurea

  37. Innsbruck MS & Ústí nad Orlicí frg.:
  38. Song: Nascitur de Virgine

  39. Jistebnice hymnal:
  40. Song: More festi quaerimus / Prisli jsme na cest zpievajíc

  41. Anon., Trnava MS:
  42. Song: Gentis mens labilis

  43. Anon., Munich MS & Franus' hymnal:
  44. Motet: Gaude Dei genitrix - Gaude Virgo mater - Gaude Virgo Maria

  45. Anon., Vyssi Brod MS:
  46. Song: Ursula speciosa

  47. Francesco Landini:
  48. Ballatta: Po che partir

  49. Anon., Prague Castle Archives:
  50. Stola Jacob

  51. Anon., Prague State Lib. MS:
  52. Song: Flos florum inter lilia

  53. Philippe de Vitry:
  54. Motet: Vos quid admiramini

  55. Anon., Franus' hymnal:
  56. Song: Motet: Ave coronata - Alma parens

  57. Anon., Vyssi Brod MS:
  58. Song: Ave maris stella

  59. Kiel Univ. Lib. & Cracow Dominican Order Lib. MS:
  60. Song: Buoh vsemohúcí / Deus omnipotens
    Anon., Franus' hymnal:
    Motet: Christus surrexit - Chorus novae - Christus surrexit, mala nostra texit

Playing time: 69' 45"

Performers:
[1]-[18] Symphosium Musicum [Milos Müller (soprano & alto fiddle), Josef Prazák (tenor fiddle, lute, tambourine), Karel Klement (recorder, shawm, tenor shawm, mute cornett, tabor), Miloslav Klement (ala bohemica, recorder, flute, pipe, tabor), Ladislav Vachulka (tabor, tambourine, traiangle)] & Dalibor Jedlicka (baritone), Zdenek Jankovsky (tenor), Libuse Márová (contralto)
[19]-[33] Prague Madrigal Singers [Milada Jirglová (soprano), Jitka Zichová (soprano), Stanislava Secká (contralto), Jaromir Belor (baritone), Pavel Jurkovic (baritone), Vratislav Vinicky (bass), Jana Nováková (recorder, psaltery, percussion), Pavel Jurkovic (fiddles, recorders percussion) Svatpluk Jánys (shawm portatve organ, percussion), Jan Rokyta (tympanon, portative organ, percussion), Michal Vojtechovsky (viola da gamba, trumpet marine), Jaroslav Tvrzsky (portatve organ), Josef Krcek (friction-drum, percussion)] & Jaroslav Tománek (tenor), Vladimir Dolezal (counter-tenor) - Miroslav Venhoda, dir.

Recording site and date:
[1]-[18] Supraphon Studio Domovina, Prague [06/1977]
[19]-[33] Music Department Hall of the National Museum, Prague [05-06/1977]

Compilation: Supraphon 1112 2451-2 G [LPx2] - Musica in Bohemia in tempore Caroli IV

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 19/2-

Comments: Information from owned CD and Fanfare.

A couple of earlier programs by the second of these ensembles:

Musica Antiqua Slovaca
Prague Madrigalists - Miroslav Venhoda, cond.
Opus 91130278 [LP]
Cantiones
Medii et renascentis Bohemorum aevi
Prague Madrigal Singers – Miroslav Venhoda, cond.
Supraphon SUP ST 60141 [LP, 25cm + Book (Artia)]

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