Carmina Gallica

Carmina Gallica
Chansons latines du XIIe siècle - Twelfth-century Latin songs
Diabolus in Musica - Antoine Guerber
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Content:

    Hildebert de Lavardin
  1. Conductus: Promissa mundo gaudia

    2. Pierre de Blois
  2. Chanson: Vitam duxi
  3. Chanson: Sevit aure spiritus
  4. Chanson: Spoliatum flore pratum

    5. Anon.
  5. Rundellus: Mundi princeps eicitur
  6. Rundellus: Leto leta concio
  7. Chanson: Jam dulcis Amica

    8. Philippe le Chancelier
  8. Conductus: O labilis sortis

    9. Anon.
  9. Rundellus: O sedes apostolica

    10. Baudri de Bourgueil
  10. Planctus: Gloria si mundi

    11. Philippe le Chancelier
  11. Conductus: Dum medium

    12. Hilaire d'Orléans
  12. Chanson: Sic mea fata

    13. Anon.
  13. Conductus: O Maria

    14. Philippe le Chancelier
  14. Conductus: O mens cogita

    15. Anon.
  15. Conductus: Turmas arment

    16. Adam de Saint Victor
  16. Sequence: Virgo Mater
  17. Sequence: Gratulemur

    18. Anon.
  18. Rundellus: Passionis emuli

Source:
[1] A. Beaugendre: Hildebert de Lavardin "Opera" (t) / Antoine Guerber (m)
[2], [5]-[6], [8], [11], [13]-[15], [18] Florence, Bibl. Laur. Plut 29,1
[3]-[4] Br. Lib. Arundel 384A (t) / Antoine Guerber (m)
[7] BN lat 1118
[9] BM Tours 927
[10] P. Abrahams: Les oeuvres poétiques de Baudri de Bourgueil (t) / Antoine Guerber (m)
[12] BN Lat. 3719
[16]-[17] BN lat. 14452

Playing time: 66' 46"

Performers:
Diabolus in Musica [Aïno Lund-Lavoipierre (soprano), Raphaël Boulay (tenor), Antoine Guerber (tenor, irish traditional percussion), Jean-Paul Rigaud (baritone), Brice Duisit, (bowed vielle)] - Antoine Guerber, dir.

Recording site and date:
Chapelle de l'Hôpital Notre-Dame de Bon Secours, Paris [10/2002], rel. 2003

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 505-110 (july/august 2003)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 30/3-276 (january/february 2006)
Goldberg (#-p.): 26-76 (winter 2003)

Comments:
Information from owned CD.

Pierre-F. Roberge

This music is primarily from the 12th century; Hilaire d'Orléans & Pierre de Blois were both students of Abélard. Tracks 1, 3, 4, 10 have melodies supplied by Antoine Guerber.

A couple of recordings also featuring Philippe Le Chancelier:

Philippe Le Chancelier - School of Notre Dame
Sequentia
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77035
Vacillantis - Amorous, Religious, and Moralistic Latin Songs of the 12th-Century Renaissance
Magister Petrus - Mauricio Molina
Enchiriadis 2034

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