Frese Nouvele!

Frese Nouvele! - Motetten in ars antiqua und ars nova
Musica Mensurata
FSM tvd 6 7736 [LP digital]
tvd-Verlag FCD 97736 [CD]

Contents:

    Anonymous, 13th century
  1. Alle psallite / Alle psallite
  2. Salve virgo / Verbum caro factum est
  3. Quant voi revenir / Virgo virginum
  4. O Maria virgo / O Maria maris stella

    5. Anonymous 14th century
  5. Ida capillorum / Portio nature

    6. Anonymous, 13th century
  6. Prennes i garde / S'on me regarde
  7. A Paris / On parole / Frese novele
  8. Ja n'amerai autre
  9. Cançonete / Ainc voir d'amor / A la cheminee
  10. L'autrier m'esbatoie / Demenant grant joie

    11. Petrus de Cruce, late 13th century
  11. Aucun ont trouve / Lonc tans me sui tenu

    12. Anonymous, 14th century
  12. Apto caro / Flos virginum

    13. Anonymous, 13th century
  13. Quant che vient en mai / Mout ai este

    14. Adam de la Hale, 1220-1287
  14. Aucun se lont loe d'amour / A Dieu
  15. Entre Adan / Chief bien seantz
  16. Dame bele / Fi, mari

    17. Guillaume de Machaut, ca. 1300-1377
  17. De bon espoir / Puis que la douce

    18. Anonymous, 13th century
  18. Que ferai / Ne puet faillir
  19. Je cuidoie / Se j'ai folement ame
  20. Trois serors / Trois serors / Trois serors

    21. Guillaume de Machaut
  21. Agnus Dei

    22. Anonymous, 14th century
  22. Post missarum / Post misse modulanima

Playing time: 55'

Performers: Egbert Schimmelpfennig (conductor), Anita Weltzien (voice), Lucia Laake (voice), Werner Marschall (voice), Kai Roterberg (voice, organistrum), Wilfried Staufenbiel (voice, hurdy-gurdy), Hans Martin Meckel (recorders, shawm, crumhorn), Egbert Schimmelpfennig (fiddles, portative organ, crumhorn), Curt Lommatzsch (trumpets, bells), Irena Troupová (voice), Astrid von Brück (harp), Stephan Maass (percussion)

Recording site and date: Berlin (Gemeindesaal der St. Petri-Luisenstadt-Kirchengemeinde), March 1990; released: 1990

Comments: This recording is devoted almost exclusively to 13th and 14th century motets, and concentrates on the similarities and contrasts between the two musical periods which these centuries encompass, the Ars Antiqua and the Ars Nova. The ensemble combines instruments and voices in their performances.

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William MacLehose