The best of Millenium of Music, vol. 2

The best of Millenium of Music
Alleluia This Sweete Songe
Various artists from Harmonia mundi
Valley Entertainment VLEC 15 024

Content:

    Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  1. Troisième O

  2. Anon., 13/14th c.
  3. Communion for Advent: Beata viscera (chant & song)

  4. George Frideric Handel: Messiah
  5. Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)

  6. Heinrich Schütz:
  7. Der Engel sprach zu den Hirten SWV 395

  8. Daniel Read
  9. While Shepherds Watched (Sherburne)

  10. Trad., 14th c.
  11. Cant de la Sibil.la

  12. Hans Leo Hassler
  13. O Admirabile commercium

  14. Thomas Tallis: Cantiones Sacrae
  15. Hymn: Salvator mundi Domine (for Compline for the Vigil of the Nativity of our Lord

  16. Anon.
  17. Alleluia: A newe werk

  18. Notker Balbullus
  19. Sequence: In natali domini (Natus ante saecula)

  20. Anon.
  21. Gaudete, Gaudete, Christus est natus

  22. Anon. / Thomas Hammond
  23. Sweet was the song the Virgine soong

  24. Anon. (from Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century, Edition de L'Oiseau-Lyre)
  25. Conductus: Salve mater salvatoris

  26. Anon.
  27. Ther is no rose of such vertu

  28. Anon.
  29. Lully, lulla, thow littel tyne child (Coventry Carol)

  30. Anon.
  31. Carol: Lullay, lullay: Als I lay on Yoolis Night

  32. Anon.:
  33. Song: Novus annus adiit

  34. Anon., St. Martial
  35. In hoc anni circulo

  36. George Frideric Handel: Messiah
  37. He Shall feed His flock

Playing time: 73' 58"

Performers
See below

Recording site and date:
[ca 1967 - 1998]

Excerpts from:
[1] Harmonia mundi HMC 5124 [LP] M.-A. Charpentier: Antienne "O" de l'Avent - Les Arts Florissants / William Christie, dir.
[2] Harmonia mundi HMU 90 7080 An English Ladymass, 13th & 14th Century Chant & Polyphony in honor of the Virgin Mary - Anonymous 4
[3], [19] Harmonia mundi HMU 90 1498/99 G.-F. Handel: Messiah - Les Arts Florissants / William Christie, dir.
[4] Harmonia mundi HMU 90 7202 A Christmas Collection: Music of Henrich Schütz (1585-1672) & Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1555-1612) - The Choir & Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music / Paul Goodwin, dir.
[5], [11] Harmonia mundi HMU 90 7079 Carols From the Old and New Worlds - Theatre of Voices / Paul Hillier, dir.
[6] Harmonia mundi HM 10 051 [LP] Catalan Music from Medieval and Renaissance Spain - Ensemble Ars Musicae de Barcelona / Enric Gispert, dir
[7] Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1401 Hassler: Missa super Dixit Maria & Motets - Ensemble Vocal Européen de la Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe, dir.
[8] Deller Recordings DR 208 Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah
[9], [14] Harmonia mundi HMC 1106 [LP] Medieval English Music: Anonymes des XIVe et XVe siècles - The Hilliard Ensemble
[10] Harmonia mundi "Documenta" HM 90 5239 Musique et poésie à Saint-Gall: Séquences et Tropes du IXe siècle - Ensemble Gilles Binchois / Dominique Vellard, dir.
[12], [15] Harmonia mundi HMU 90 7233 Carols From the Old and New Worlds, vol. 2 - Theatre of Voices / Paul Hillier, dir.
[13] Harmonia mundi HMU 90 7222 A Lammas Ladymass: 13-14th century English Chant and Polyphony - Anonymous 4
[16] Harmonia mundi HMU 90 7099 On Yoolis Night: Medieval carols and motets - Anonymous 4
[17] Harmonia mundi HMU 90 7139 A Star in the East: Medieval Hungarian Christmas Music - Anonymous 4
[18] Harmonia mundi HMU 90 7157 The Age of Cathedrals: Music from the Magnus Liber Organi - Theatre of Voices Paul Hillier, dir.

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 22/4-391 (march/april 1999)
Goldberg (#-p.):

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