Liège motets

Miroir d'Éternité

Motets et conduits du XIVe siècle
Ensemble Venance Fortunat - Anne-Marie Deschamps
Cyprès 3609

Contents:

1. Parce virgo (7 voices)
2. Deus in adjutorium (6 voices)
3. Benedicta et venerabilis es (2 voices)
   Motet 1 - virgo/eximium/or voö je bien (4 voices)
4. Motet 2 - aptatur/chies bien seans/entre Adam & Hanikel (voice, organ)
5. Salve Regina (3 voices)
6. Motet 3 - aptatur/est ilh dont/salve (5 voices)
7. Solem justitiae (3 voices)
   Motet 5 - solem/jam/jam (5 voices)
8. Kyrie XI (3 voices)
   Motet 8 - kyrie/je n'ai/bien me doi (7 voices, organ)
9. Kyrie IX (voice)
   Motet 10 - kyrie/amor qui cor/aucun vont souvent (4 voices)
10. Motet 17 - qui bien aime/quant la saisons/sens penseir (3 voices)
11. Benedictus Dominus (3 voices)
    Motet 18 - fiat/j'ai troveit/en mai (4 voices)
12. Motet 19 - nostrum/ki longuement/ki d'amur (3 voices, organ)
13. Ecce jam (3 voices)
    Motet 21 - ecce jam/aul renoveleir/s'amours ewist (4 voices)
14. Motet 22 - docebit/por coi/enne doi (organ)
15. Alleluia! Letabitur justus (3 voices)
    Motet 27 - et sperabit/lonc tens/pulchra decens (5 voices)
16. Haec dies (4 voices)
    Motet 29 - in seculum/en mun cuer/amours en cui (5 voices)

Performers: Catherine Heugel-Petit (soprano), Dominique Thibaudat (soprano), Françoise Lévy (mezzosoprano), Éric de Fontenay (countertenor), Bruno Renhold (tenor), Patrice Balter (baritone), Gabriel Lacascade (baritone), Pierre-Henri Esnault (organ)

Playing time: 50'

Recording date: October 1996

This program is taken from from a manuscript of Ars Antiqua music copied at Saint-Jacques-de-Liège early in the 14th century.

Other programs to explore less known motets of the period:

O Maria, maris stella

The Wimpfen Fragments / 13th Century Motets
I Ciarlatani
Christophorus 77215

Frese Nouvele

Motetten in ars antiqua und ars nova
Musica Mensurata
TVDVerlag 97736

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