The Medieval Experience

The Medieval Experience
Various Ensembles (Choralschola der abtei Müchwarzach; The Early Music Consort of London,; Choeur de l'abaye Notre-Dame de Fontgombault; Pro Cantione Antiqua & The London Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble)
Archiv 449 082-2 [4 CDs]

Contents:

    CD-1: Monks and troubadours I

    Anon.:
  1. Antiphona: Hosanna
  2. Antiphona: Pueri Hebraerum

  3. Anon., Codex Montpellier, faculté de médecine de Montpellier MS H 196:
  4. Motet (3v): En mai quant rosier sont

  5. Anon.:
  6. Antiphona: Cum audisset

  7. Anon., Codex Montpellier, faculté de médecine de Montpellier MS H 196:
  8. Motet (3v): Alle, psallite cum luya

  9. Anon.:
  10. Antiphona: Coeperunt omnes
  11. Antiphona: Occurrunt turbae
  12. Antiphona: Cum angelis
  13. Antiphona: Ante sex dies

  14. Anon., Codex Montpellier, faculté de médecine de Montpellier MS H 196:
  15. Motet (3v): S'on me regarde

  16. Anon.:
  17. Hymnus: Gloria, laus et honor

  18. Anon., Codex Bamberg, Bamberg MS Ed IV,6:
  19. Motet (3v): El mois de mai

  20. Anon.:
  21. Responsorium: Ingrediente

  22. Adam de la Halle:
  23. Motet (3v): J'os bien a m'amie parler

  24. Anon.:
  25. Introitus: Domine, ne longe facias

  26. Anon., Codex Bamberg, Bamberg MS Ed IV, 6:
  27. Motet (3v): O mitissima

  28. Anon.:
  29. Graduale: Tenuisti manum dextram

  30. Anon.: Roman de Fauvel
  31. Motet (3v): La mesnie fauveline

  32. Anon.:
  33. Offertorium: Improperium
  34. Communio: Pater si non potest

  35. Philippe de Vitry: Roman de Fauvel
  36. Motet (4v): Impudenter circumivi
  37. CD-2: Monks and troubadours II

    Anon.:
  38. Introitus: Terribilis esté

  39. Anon., Codex Montpellier, faculté de médecine de Montpellier MS H 196:
  40. Motet (3v): In mari miserie

  41. Anon.:
  42. Kyrie XII
  43. Gloria XII

  44. Anon., Codex Ivrea:
  45. Motet (3v): Clap, clap, par un matin

  46. Anon.:
  47. Graduale: Locus iste
  48. Alleluia: Adorabo
  49. Offertorium: Domine Deus

  50. Anon.: Roman de Fauvel
  51. Motet (3v): Quant je le voi

  52. Anon.:
  53. Sanctus XII
  54. Agnus Dei XII
  55. Communio: Domus mea

  56. Guillaume de Machaut:
  57. Motet (3v): Qui es promesses

  58. Anon.:
  59. Invitorium et psalmodia: Domum Dei

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

  62. Anon.:
  63. Responsorium: Fundata est

  64. Anon., Codex Ivrea:
  65. Motet (3v): Lés l'ormel a la turelle

  66. Anon.:
  67. Antiphona
    Antiphona
    Antiphona
    Antiphona
    Antiphona
  68. Hymnus: Angularis fundamentum
  69. Antiphona ad Benedictus: Zachaee

  70. Henri Gilles de Pusiex, Codex Ivrea:
  71. Motet (3v): Rachel plorat filios

  72. Anon.:
  73. Hymnus: Urbs Jerusalem
  74. Antiphona ad Magnificat: Sanctificavit
  75. Antiphona ad Magnificat: O quam metuendus est

  76. Philippe Royllart, Codex Chantilly:
  77. Motet (5v): Rex Karole, Johannis genite
  78. CD-3: Motets

    John Dunstable:
  79. Motet: Veni sancti spiritus
  80. Motet: Beata mater
  81. Motet: Preco preheminencie
    Guillaume Dufay:
  82. Motet: Supremum est mortalibus
  83. Motet: Flos florum
  84. Motet: Vasilissa, ergo gasude
  85. Motet: Alma redemptoris mater

  86. Gilles Binchois:
  87. Gloria laus et honor
  88. Agnus Dei

  89. Jacob Obrecht:
  90. Beata es, Maria

  91. Josquin Desprez:
  92. Motet: Huc me sydereo/Plangent eum
  93. CD-4: Masses and memorials

    Josquin Desprez: Missa "L'homme armé super voces musicales"
  94. Kyrie
  95. Gloria
  96. Credo
  97. Sanctus
  98. Agnus Dei

  99. Johannes Ockeghem: Missa "pro defunctis" (Requiem)
  100. Introitus
  101. Kyrie
  102. Graduale
  103. Tractus
  104. Offertorium

  105. Josquin Desprez:
  106. Nymphes des bois (Déploration sur la mort d'Ockeghem)

Playing time: 58' 50" + 62' 04" + 60' 09" + 75' 22" = 4h 16" 25'

Performers & recording sites and dates:
Choralschola der abtei Müchwarzach; The Early Music Consort of London,; Choeur de l'abaye Notre-Dame de Fontgombault; Pro Cantione Antiqua & The London Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble; released in 1995.
For more precise details, refer to individual links below (excerpts).

Excerpts (from original release):
[1]-[2], [4], [6-9], [11], [13], [15], [17], [19], [20] Archiv Produktion 2533 320 [LP] Chants on Palms Sunday (Choralschola der abtei Münsterschwarzach - Pater Godehard Joppich)
[3], [5], [10], [12], [14], [16], [18], [21], [23], [26], [30], [34], [36], [38], [42], [46] Archiv Produktion 2710 019 [LPx3] Music of the Gothic era
[22], [24], [25], [27-29], [31-33], [35], [37], [39-41], [43-45] DG Archiv Produktion 2533 359 Gregorian Chant (Choeur de l'abaye Notre-Dame de Fontgombault - Dom G. Duchêne, dir.)
[47]-[53] Archiv Produktion 2533 291 [LP] Dufay - Dunstable: Motetten-Motets
[54]-[55] Archiv Produktion 2533 404 [LP] Busnois: Missa "L'homme armé" Binchois: Motetten-Motets
[56] Archiv Produktion 2533 377 [LP] Jakob Obrecht: Salve Regina - Beata es Maria - Salve crux; Pierre de la Rue: Laudate Dominum - Pater de caelis - Gaude virgo - Salve Regina
[57]-[62] Archiv Produktion 2533 360 [LP] Josquin: Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales - Huc me sydereo; Gombert; Musae Jovis; Vinders: O mors inevitabilis
[63]-[68] Archiv Produktion 2533 145 [LP] Johannes Ockeghem: Missa Pro Defunctis - Josquin Després: Déploration sur la mort d'Ockeghem
33 r.p.m. - Other recordings:
[47], [51], [53], [55], [57]-[68] Archiv Produktion 2723 070 [LPx6] Geistliche Musik der Renaissance
[48], [52] Schwann HL 0 0 211 Spektrum Musik (Musikkundein Beispelen (2) die Geschichte) (5 LPs)
CD:
[57]-[67] Archiv Produktion 415 293-2 Desprez: Missa "L'homme armé" - Ockeghem: Requiem

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
(a) 56/664-528 (sept. 1978 (as Archiv 2533 320))
(b) 54/642-862 (nov.1976 (as DG Archiv 2710 019))
(c) 56/669-1460 (feb. 1979 (as Archiv 2533 359))
(f) 56/672-1922 (may 1979 (Archiv 2533 377))
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
Information owned Cds.
A reference for Philips label with the same number appeared im New Releases, Gramophone, december 2002. I have been informed that this is a Gramophone error. Universal (ex-PolyGram) keeps its groups of a thousand numbers intact by label, so all the 449000 numbers are D.G., none of them are Philips.

Some other medieval compilations:

Music in Medieval Europe
Studio der frühen Music & Early Music Institute - Thomas Binkley
Focus 883-4S [2 Cassettes]
History of European Music - Part I: Music of the Early Middle Ages
Schola Cantorum Londiniensis - Edgar Fleet & Denis Stevens, dirs
Musical Heritage Society OR 349 / 51 [3 LPs]

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Pierre-F. Roberge