Ars Antiqua

Ars Antiqua - Organum · Motette · Conductus
Frühe Mehrstimmigkeit
Capella Antiqua, München - Konrad Ruhland
Telefunken "Das Alte Werk" SAWT 9530 / 31-B [LPx2]
Telefunken-Decca, "Das Alte Werk" 6.35010 [LPx2]

Contents:

    LP-1

    Magister Leoninus
  1. Alleluia: Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus (2-voice organum)

    2. Magister Perotinus
  2. Alleluia: Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus (3-voice organum)

    3. Anonymous
  3. Ave virgo virginum (3-voice conductus)
  4. Beatis nobis adhibe / Benedicamus Domino (3-voice motet)

    5. ----
  5. Judea et Jerusalem (3-voice organum)
  6. O Maria maris stella / Veritatem (3-voice motet)
  7. Kyrie virginitatis amator (troped Kyrie)
  8. Vetus abit littera (4-voice conductus)

    9. Magister Perotinus
  9. Benedicamus Domino (3-voice organum)

    10. LP-2

    Anonymous 13th-century
  10. Deus in adiutorium
  11. Alle psallite cum luia (3-voice motet)
  12. Verbum bonum et suave (2-voice sequence)
  13. Sanctus (2-voice Mass setting)
  14. Belial vocatur (4-voice motet)
  15. Salve virgo virginum / Omnes (3-voice motet)
  16. Studentes coniugio / De se debent bigami / Kyrie (3-voice motet)
  17. Victime paschali laudes (2-voice Easter sequence)
  18. Ave gloriosa / Ave virgo regia / Domino (3-voice motet)
  19. Ave gloriosa mater salvatoris (3-voice conductus)

    20. ----
    Anonymous, early 14th-century
  20. Kyrie magne deus potencie (2-voice troped Kyrie)
  21. Homo luge / Homo miserabilis / Brumas e mors (3-voice motet)
  22. Flos ut rosa floruit (2-voice Christmas conductus)
  23. Jube domne benedicere - Primo tempore (3-voice Lesson for Christmas matins)
  24. Lux vera lucis radium (2-voice hymn for St. Ludmilla)
  25. In illo tempore: Egressus Jesus (1-3 voice Gospel reading)
  26. Salve virgo virginum (3-voice conductus)

Performers:
Capella Antiqua München [Konrad Ruhland (director, tenor), Norbert Regul (tenor), Elfried Metten (tenor), Leopold Fendt (tenor, organ, crumhorn), Hans Bichler (tenor, organ), Hans Walch (tenor, recorder, crumhorn), Siegfried Winner (bass), Frieder Neunhoeffer (bass, cornet), Ernst Obermayer (bass, fiddle), Venanz Schubert (bass), Albrecht Renz (cornet), Veronika Thurmair (fiddle), Elisabeth Ruhland (soprano, fiddle, bells), Helga Radecker (soprano), Christa Keglmaier (soprano), Maria Bichler (soprano), Irmengard Metten (soprano)]

Recording site and date:
Möschenfeld bei München [Munich], April-June 1968

Comments: This album provides an excellent and detailed overview of the different styles of the Ars antiqua, both through the music and through the extensive text included in the boxed set. This is an important, formative recording which deserves to be reissued on compact disc.

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William MacLehose