The Play of Daniel

The Play of Daniel

Pro Cantione Antiqua & The Landini Consort - Mark Brown, dir.
Argo ZRG 900 [LP]
Argo KZRC 900 [Cassette]
L'Oiseau-Lyre DSLO 612 [LP]
Musical Heritage Society MHC 912101 [LP]
Musical Heritage Society MHC 312101 [Cass.]
Decca "Serenata" 433 731-2 [CD]

Contents:

Magister Albertus Parisiensis (attr.), Codex Calixtinus:

1. Congaudeant catholici

Anon.: Ludus Danielis

2. Ad honorem tui Christi
3. Rex in aeternum vive... Vos qui paretis
4. Ecce sunt ante faciem tuam
5. Rex in aeternum vive/Adsumus ecce tibi
6. Vos Danielem quarite
7. Rex in aeternum vive... Tune Daniel nomine
8. Solvitur in libro Salomonis

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Pérotin (attr.):

9. Beata viscera

Anon.: Ludus Danielis

10. Rex in aeternum vive... Audite principes
11. G'en vois al roi

Pérotin (attr.):

12. E semine rosa

Anon.: Ludus Danielis

13. Abacuc tu senex pie
14. Deum Danielis
15. Te Deum laudamus

Playing time: 58' 11"

Performers:
Pro Cantione Antiqua
Paul Elliott (a chorister), David Thomas (Belshazzar), Brian Etgeridge (magi, envious counsellor), Michael George (magi, Habbakkuk), Stephen Roberts (magi), Kevin Smith (Belshazzar's Queen, 1st angel, soloist in Beata Viscera), James Griffett (Daniel), Charles Brett (advisor, soloist in E Semine Rosa), Timothy Penrose (adviser, soloist in E Semine Rosa), Stephen Roberts (legate), James Lewingston (envious counsellor, soloist in E Semine Rosa), Edgar Fleet (envious counsellor), Ian Partridge (Darius), Members of the Pro Cantione Antiqua (couriers,satraps)
The Landini Consort
John Bryan (recorder, shawm, portative organ, bells, nakers), Peter Syrus (fiddle rebec, shawm, recorders, psaltery), Margaret McCall (rebec, recorders, taborcymbals), Elizabeth Liddle (citole, psaltery, lute tabor), Frances Kelly (medieval harp), Edgar Fleet (bells)
Mark Brown, dir.

Recording site and date:
St. Jude-on-the Hill [06/1978];
Rel.: 1979

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 428-116 (july/august 1996)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 3/5- (May/Jun 1980); 8/3- (Nov/Dec 1984)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 57/674-234 (july 1979) for Argo; 61/726- (november 1983) for L'Oiseau-Lyre; 70/839-102 (april 1993) for Decca

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