Vox Iberica I

Vox Iberica I: Donnersöhne - Sons of Thunder
Music for St. James the Apostle: Codex Calixtinus
Sequentia - Benjamin Bagby & Barbara Thornton, dirs
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG) RD 77199 [CD]
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG) 05472 77199 2 [CD]
Concert baroque CBF066 / ISBN 2-84349-013-8 [CD/booklet]

Contents:

  1. Vox nostra resonet (3x2 voices)
  2. Congaudeant catholici (tutti=8 voices)
  3. Iacobe virginei (voice, tutti)
  4. Gratulantes celebremus festum (2 voices)
  5. Huic Iacobo (voice, tutti)
  6. Ad superni regis decus (2 voices, tutti)
  7. Cum vidissent autem (tutti)
  8. Nostra phalans plaudat leta (2x2 voices)
  9. Misit Herodes (voice, tutti)
  10. Alleluia. Vocavit Ihesus (voice, tutti)
  11. Exultet celi curia (4 voices, tutti, organistrum)
  12. In hac die laudes cum gaudio (2x2 voices)
  13. Iacobe sancte, tuum repetito (2x2 voices)
  14. Cunctipotens genitor deus (voice, tutti)
  15. Rex immense, pater pie (2 voices, tutti)
  16. Dum esset (voice, tutti)
  17. Annua gaudia, Iacobe debita (2x2 voices, tutti)
  18. O adiutor (voice, voice, tutti)
  19. Regi perhennis glorie (2 voices)
  20. Jocundetur et letetur (tutti)
  21. Benedicamus domino I, II, III (voice, tutti)
  22. Dum pater familias (tutti)

Source:
[1] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 187v
[2] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 185
[3] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 188
[4] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 185v
[5] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 188
[6] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 185v
[7] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 108
[8] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 185r
[9] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 189
[10] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 189v
[11] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 130v
[12] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 131v
[13] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 186v
[14] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 190 / Paris, Bibl. Nat. lat. 887, fol. 56
[15] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 189
[16] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 187v
[17] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 186v
[18] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 188
[19] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 187
[20] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 105v
[21] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 190/190/190v
[22] Santiago de Compostella, Biblioteca de la Catedral (Codex Calixtinus), fol. 193

Performers:
Sequentia, Ensemble für Musik des Mittelalters
Benjamin Bagby (voice, organistrum), Stephen Grant (voice), William Hite (voice), Friedhelm Hohmann (voice), Colin Mason (voice), Eric Mentzel (voice, organistrum), Raimund Nolte (voice), Berhard Schneider (voice)
Benjamin Bagby & Barbara Thornton, dirs.

Playing time: 74'

Recording site and date:
Roquemaure, France [11/1989];
Rel.: 1992 (BMG), 2001 (CBF)

Compilation:
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 05472 77333 2 [CDx3] Vox Iberica
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG) 74321 46925 2 [CDx4] La musique dans l'Europe du Moyen-Âge

Comments:
Information for "Concert baroque CBF066" is from Bn-Opale plus.

The Codex Calixtinus is from the shrine of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia (Northwest Spain), and deals primarily with the subject of St. James. The manuscript is originally from Central or Northern France, apparently carried to the site by pilgrims. Stylistically, the music is typical of French conducti of the 11th & 12th century.

The performance is by an all-male choir (with organistrum on one track), some parts are doubled, while others are sung by one voice. There is a variety of texture employed, although the music is exclusively for one or two parts.

Other recordings devoted to the Codex Calixtinus:

Le grand livre de saint Jacques de Compostelle
Intégrale des polyphonies du Codex Calixtinus
Ensemble Venance Fortunat - Anne-Marie Deschamps
L'Empreinte digitale 13023
Miracles of Sant'Iago
Music from the Codex Calixtinus
Anonymous 4
Harmonia Mundi USA 907156
Codex Calixtinus
Missa de Sancti Jacobi
Grúpo de Musica Alfonso X el Sabio - Luis Lozano Virumbrales
Sony "Hispánica" 60075
Compostelle
Le Chant de l'Étoile
Discantus - Brigitte Lesne
Jade 301 654
Compostela ad Vesperas Sancti Iacobi
Codex Calixtinus XII
Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès
Ambroisie 9966
Hic est Chorus
Música Litúrgica de las Catedrales del Reyno de Galicia
Coro Ultreia - Fernando Olbés Durán
Harmonia Mundi Ibérica 987043
Missa Sancti Iacobi
Solemn mass for the feast of the passion of Saint James of Compostella according to the Codex Calixtinus c. 1140
Choeur Le Feu de Jésu
McGill 750 0037
The Road to Compostela
The Rose Ensemble
Rose 00004
Codex Calixtinus
Frederic Tavernier
Dux 0321

Finally, the other two volumes of Sequentia's Vox Iberica series:

Vox Iberica II: Las Huelgas Codex
Sequentia
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77238
Vox Iberica III: El Sabio - Songs for King Alfonso X
Sequentia
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77173

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