Universi populi

Universi populi

Chants sacrés à Prague du XII^e au XV^e siècle
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne, dir.
Zig-Zag Territoires ZZT 060601

Contents:

1. Cantio: Universi populi simul iam gaudete
2. Introit: Rorate celi desuper
3. Troped Anthem: Salve virgo gloriosa
4. Cantio: Hac nube irrorante
5. Motet: Natus est / Quem pastores / Huius sit memoria
6. Troped Benedicamus domino: Festivali melodia te laudamus o Maria
7. Troped Benedicamus domino: Virga Yesse floruit
8. Cantio: Nobis est natus hodie de poura virgine
9. Prose: Salve pater optime
10. Troped Benedicamus domino: Ad honorem sempiterni regis
11. Hymn to St. Ludmilla: Lux vera lucis radium
12. Troped Sanctus: Sanctus - Deus rerum principium
13. Cantio: Deus omnipotens a morte resurgens
14. Conductus: Ave virgo virginum
15. Troped Kyrie: O Deus pater ingenite
16. Motet: Surrexit Christus / Angelus / Christus / Terra tremuit
17. Lectio: Sequencia sancti evangelii / In illo tempore
18. Motet: Nostra iucunda curia / Eya / Unde gaudent angeli
19. Sanctus: Sanctus
20. Responsory, Office of St. Wenceslas: Wenceslaus, dux gracie
21. Responsory & Trope, Office of St. Wenceslas: Castus mente corpore / Preclaris
22. Prose: Imperatrix angelorum
23. Cantio: Jesus dulcis mater bona
24. Anthem: O florens rosa
25. Cantio: O regina, lux divina

Sources:
[1], [5], [18], [23], [24] Gradual Latino-Bohemicus, Prag University library VI B 24
[2], [4], [16] Hymnarius cantionale, Prag University library VI C 20
[3] Hymnarius cantionale, Prag University library V H 11
[6] Processionale, St. George's Monastery, Prag University library VI G 10b
[7], [10] Processionale, St. George's Monastery, Prag University library VI G 10a
[12] Troparium, Archives of the Castle Cim 4
[13], [15], [19], [25] Gradual-cantionale, Narodni Museum, XIII A 2
[14] Domkapitel book prayers, Chramovni Knihovna, N. VIII / School of Notre-Dame, Florence, Pluteus 29
[17] Missale, Narodni Museum, XIII E 4
[20] Antiphonarium, St. George's Monastery, Prag University library VI G 3a
[21] Antiphonarium, St. George's Monastery, Prag University library XIV G 46
[22] Gradual, Narodni Museum, XII A 20

Playing time: 65' 27"

Performers:
Discantus
Hélène Decarpignies (voice, handbells), Anne Delafosse-Quentin (voice, handbells), Anne Guidet (voice, handbells), Lucie Jolivet (voice, handbells), Brigitte Le Baron (voice, handbells, glockenspiel), Brigitte Lesne (voice, handbells, glockenspiel), Caroline Megalhaes (voice, handbells), Catherine Schroeder (voice, handbells), Catherine Sergent (voice, handbells)
Brigitte Lesne, dir.

Recording site and date:
Abbaye de Sylvanès [12/2005];
Rel.: 2006

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 539-135 (september 2006)
Early Music America (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Goldberg (y., #-p.): 2006, 43-90
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 1014/84-89 (january 2007)

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