Liber Evangeliorum

Otfrid von Weissenburg: Liber Evangeliorum (ca 870)
Poetry and Music from the Age of Charlemagne
Ensemble Officium - Wilfried Rombach, dir.
Christophorus CHR 77279

Contents:

  1. Invocatio: Wola drúhtin min
  2. Invitatory: Præoccupemus faciem Domini
  3. Hymn: Vox clara ecce intonat
  4. Lesson I: Thiz sint búah frono
  5. Responsory: Aspiciens a longe
  6. Lesson II: Ward áfter thiu irscritan sár
  7. Responsory: Sancta et immaculata virginitas
  8. Responsory: Suscipe verbum Virgo Maria
  9. Lesson III: Fûar tho sancta Mária
    Lesson III: Thó sprah sancta Mária
  10. Responsory: Beatam me dicent omnes generationes
  11. Responsory: Ecce apparebit Dominus
  12. Hymn: Veni redemptor gentium
  13. Lesson IV: Wúntar ward tho máraz
  14. Responsory: O magnum mysterium
  15. Responsory: Beata Dei Genitrix
  16. Lesson V: Tho wúrun thar in lánte
  17. Responsory: Hodie nobis cœlorum Rex
  18. Responsory: Verbum caro factum est
  19. Lesson VI: Thar was ein mán alter
  20. Responsory: Adoma thalamum tuum Sion
  21. Oratio: Giwérdo uns geban drútin
  22. Antiphon: Alma Redemptoris mater

Playing time: 73' 34"

Performers:
Ensemble Officium
Marion Bücher-Herbst (voice, solo), Laila Finvik-Pettersen (voice, solo), Miriam Barth (voice), Sibylle Henn (voice), Alena Leja (voice), Christine Rombach (voice), Jörg Rieger (recitative), Steffen Doberauer (recitative), Wilfried Rombach (voice, soli), Florian Schmidt (voice), Daniel Herrscher (voice), Jens-Martin Ludwig (voice), Marc Lewon (fiddle), Uri Smilansky (fiddle), Elizabeth Rumsey (fiddle)
Wilfried Rombach, dir.

Recording site and date:
Ev. Kirche, Gönningen [06/2005];
Rel.: 2006

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 32/6-298 (Jul./Aug. 2009)

Comments:
Information from CD.
This program is taken from the Liber evangeliorum (c.870), a translation of the gospel into the Franconian dialect, accompanied by neumes. (Todd McComb)

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