De Vitry

Philippe de Vitry and the Ars Nova
Orlando Consort
Amon Ra 49

Contents:

  1. Vos quid admiramini / Gratissima virginis species
  2. Se je chant
  3. Apta caro / Flos virginum
  4. Tribum que non abhorruit / Quoniam secta latronum
  5. O canenda vulgo / Rex quem metrorum
  6. Colla iuga subdere / Bona condit
  7. Petre Clemens / Lugentium siccentur
  8. Trahunt in precipicia / Quasi non ministerium / Ve qui gregi
  9. Almifonis melos / Rosa sine culpe spina
  10. Douce playsence / Garison selon nature
  11. Tuba sacre fidei / In arboris
  12. In virtute / Decens carmen
  13. Impudenter circumivi / Virtutibus laudabilis
  14. Aman novi probatur / Heu, fortuna subdola
  15. Floret cum vana gloria / Florens vigor
  16. Firmissime fidem / Adesto Sancta Trinitas
  17. Flos ortus / Celsa cedrus
  18. Servant regem / O Philippe
  19. Cum statua Nabucodonasor / Hugo, Hugo, princeps invidie

Performers: Robert Harre-Jones (countertenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Angus Smith (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone)

Playing time: 60'

Recording date: April 1990

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 15/2- (November / December 1991)

Again, only a handful of these pieces are authentically by de Vitry (1291-1361), but the collection as a whole is a good one for Latin motets (plus one French motet #10 and one canonic chanson #2) of the period.

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Todd M. McComb