Gothic Music

Music of the Gothic Era
The Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow, dir.
DG Archiv 2723 045 [LPx3]
DG Archiv 2710 019 [LPx3]
DG Archiv 423 354 1AH3 [LPx3]
DG Archiv "Codex" 453 185-2 [CDx2]
DG Archiv "Codex" 469 027-2GCL [CDx2]
Musical Heritage Society MHS 525 643F [CDx2]
DG Archiv "Blue" 471 731-2 [CDx2]

Contents:

    LP/CD-1

    Leonin:
  1. Organum (2v): Viderunt omnes
  2. Organum (2v): Alleluya Pascha nostrum
  3. Organum (2v): Gaude Maria Virgo
  4. Organum (2v): Locus iste

  5. ----
    Perotin:
  6. Organum (4v): Viderunt omnes
  7. Organum (4v): Sederunt principes
  8. LP-2

    Anon., Codex Montpellier, faculté de médecine de Montpellier MS H 196:
  9. Motet (3v): Alle, psallite cum luya
  10. Motet (3v): Amor potest
  11. Motet (3v): S'on me regarde
  12. Motet (3v): In mari miserie
  13. Motet (3v): On parole de batre
  14. Motet (3v): En mai quant rosier sont flouri

  15. Anon., Codex Bamberg, Bamberg MS Ed IV, 6:
  16. Motet (3v): Dominator Domine
  17. Motet (3v): El mois de mai
  18. Motet (3v): O mitissima
  19. CD-2

  20. Motet (3v): Hoquetus 1-VII:
    1. Neuma
    2. Virgo
    3. In seculum longum
    4. In seculum viellatoris
    5. In seculum breve
    6. In seculum d'Amiens longum
    7. In seculum
  21. ----
    Petrus de Cruce, Codex Montpellier, faculté de médecine de Montpellier MS H 196
  22. Aucun ont trouvé

  23. Adam de la Halle:
  24. Motet (3v): De me dame vient
  25. Motet (3v): J'os bien a m'amie parler

  26. Anon: Roman de Fauvel
  27. Motet (3v): Le mesnie fauveline
  28. Motet (3v): Quant je le voi
  29. Motet (3v): Zelus familie
  30. Motet (4v): Quasi non ministerium

  31. Philippe de Vitry:
  32. Impudentur circumivi
  33. Cum statua
  34. LP-3

    Bernard de Cluny, Codex Ivrea:
  35. Motet (5v): Pantheon abluitur

  36. Anon., codex Ivrea
  37. Motet (3v): Clap, clap, par un

  38. Henri Gilles de Pusiex, Codex Ivrea:
  39. Motet (4v): Ida capillorum
  40. Motet (3v): Rachel plorat filios

  41. Anon., Codex Ivrea:
  42. Motet (3v): Lés l'ormel a la turelle
  43. Motet (3v): O Philippe, Franci qui generis
  44. Motet (3v): Febus mundo oriens

  45. ----
    Guillaume de Machaut:
  46. Motet (3v): Lasse! comment oublieray
  47. Motet (3v): Qui es promesses
  48. Motet (3v): Hoquetus David
  49. Motet (4v): Christe qui lux es

  50. Anon., Codex Chantilly:
  51. Motet (4v): Degentis vita
  52. Motet (3v): Inter densas deserti meditans

  53. Philippe Royllart, Codex Chantilly:
  54. Motet (5v): Rex Karole, Johannis genite

Playing time: 2h 18' 19" (LP), 67' 16" + 72' 04" = 2h 19' 20" (CD)

Performers: The Early Music Consort of London [James Bowman (countertenor), Charles Brett (countertenor), Paul Elliott (tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), John Nixon (tenor), John Potter (tenor), Geoffrey Shaw (bass), Oliver Brookes (fiddle), Eleanor Sloane (rebec, fiddle), Nigel North (rebec), James Tyler (lute, mandora), Gillian Reid (bells, psaltery), Christopher Hogwood (harp, portable organ), David Corkhill (bells, positive organ, naker, tabor), Michael Laird (cornett, alto cornett), Iaan Wilson (cornett), Alan Lumsden (tenor cornett, slide trumpet), David Munrow (soprano, alto & tenor recorder, alto & tenor shawm, tenor cornemuse)] - David Munrow.

Recording site and date:
Chapel, Charter House, Godalming / Surrey, UK [04/1975] Conway Hall, London, UK [10/1975]

Excerpts:
[1], [5], [7]-[10], [15], [17]-[20], [24]-[25], [27], [32]-[35], [38] DG Archiv Produktion 415 292-2 [CD]
[7], [9]-[10], [12], [14]-[15], [19]-[21], [24], [26]-[27], [29], [30], [34], [39] DG Archiv Produktion 449 082-2 [CDx4] The Medieval experience

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 216-33 (april 1977); 311/96 (dec. 1985 (as Archiv 415 292-2))
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 54/642-862 (nov.1976)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 3/1-222 (1979), 22/3-289 (January/February 1999), 27/2-242 (November/December 2003).

Comments: Information from owned LP and CDs & Jane Pattle.

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Pierre-F. Roberge