Notker: Sequences, tropes & Gregorian chants from St Gall Abbey

Notker Balbulus (ca. 840-912)
Sequenzen, Tropen & Gregorianischer Choral aus dem Kloster St. Gallen
Sequences, tropes & Gregorian chants from St. Gall Abbey
Ensemble Ordo Virtutum für Musik des Mittelalters – Stefan Johannes Morent, dir.
Christophorus CHR 77341

Contents:

    Gregorian Chant
  1. Alleluia: Dies sanctificatus

    2. Notker von Sankt Gallen
  2. Sequence: Natus ante saecula

    3. Anon.
  3. Melodic model: Dies sanctificatus (instr.)
  4. Trope: Primus init Stephanus
    Trope: En vice nos Stephani
    (with Introit: Eternim sederunt principes (St Stephan))

    5. Notker von Sankt Gallen
  5. Sequence: Gaude Maria Virgo

    6. Anon.
  6. Trope: Hodie clarissimam
    Trope: Olim promissus
    Notker ?
    Trope: Forma speciosissimus
    Anon.
    Trope: Olim quem vates

    7. Notker ?
  7. Trope: Ex numero frequentium
    Anon.
    Trope: Quasi quid incredibile
    Trope: Qui vobis terrigenis
  8. Trope: Consubstantialis patri
    (with Introit: Spiritus domini)

    9. Notker von Sankt Gallen
  9. Sequence: Sancti spiritus assit nobis gratia

    10. Notker ?
  10. Melodic model: Occidentana (instr.)

    11. Anon. / Stefan Morent (melodic reconstruction), Ludwigslied, 882
  11. Einan kuning weiz ih

    12. Anon.
  12. Melodic model: Romana (instr.)

    13. Gregorian chant
  13. Introit: Gaudeamus omnes

    14. Notker von Sankt Gallen
  14. Sequence: Congaudent angelorum chori

    15. Anon.
  15. Melodic model: Mater (instr.)

    16. Gregorian chant
  16. Alleluia: Iustus ut palma

    17. Notker von Sankt Gallen
  17. Sequence: Dilecte Deo Galle

Performers:
Ensemble Ordo Virtutum für Musik des Mittelalters
Jörg Deutschewitz (voice), Hubert Mayer (voice), Stefan Johannes Morent (voice, harp, portative), Jörg Rieger (voice), Daniel Schreiber (voice), Alexander Yudenkov (voice), Susanne Ansorg (fiddle)
Stefan Johannes Morent, dir.

Playing time: 59' 36"

Recording site and date:
Zisterzienserkloster Bebenhausen, Germany [04/2010]
Kirche Heilig Kreuz Binningen, Switzerland [06/2010];
Rel.: 2011

Reviewed in: Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 34/6-333 (July-August 2011); 35/2-321 (November/December 2011)

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Pierre-F. Roberge