Noël, Noël

Noël, Noël - Noël français / French Christmas Music 1200 - 1600
The Boston Camerata - Joël Cohen, dir.
Erato ECD 75569 [CD]
Erato 22992-45420-2 [CD]
Erato 22992-45420-4 [Cassette]

Contents:

    I - Minuit à Bethléem / Midnight in Bethleem

    Anon., (text) 16th c./gregorian (music): The Sybil's Prophecy
  1. Oyez Seigneur comment parla / Conditor alme

  2. Anon., gregorian:
  3. O oriens, splendor lucis aeternae

  4. Anon., (text) 16th c./gregorian (music):
  5. Kyrie "Le jour de Noël" / Fons bonitas
  6. II - Semaine de Noël à Beauvais / Christmas Week in Beauvais, ca 1200

    Anon., Beauvais ms:
  7. Lux Hodie - Orientis partibus
  8. Quem vidistis pastores
    Alle, resonnent omnes ecclesia
  9. Magnum nomen domini
  10. Lux optata claruit
  11. Virgo gemma virginum
  12. Quando decet honore
  13. III - À la Vierge / To the Virgin

    Gilles Binchois:
  14. Ave regins celorum

  15. Arnold de Lantins:
  16. In tua memoria

  17. Guillaume Dufay:
  18. Magnificat
  19. IV - Noël, Noël

    Antoine Brumel
  20. Noe, Noe

  21. Claude de Sermisy
  22. Noe, noe, magnificus est rex pacificus
  23. V - Une guirlande de Noëls Renaissance - A Renaissance bouquet of carols and dances

    Anon., 16th c.:
  24. Conditor en français

  25. Jean Daniel (text) / Pierre Certon (music):
  26. Chantons Noël, menon joyeuse vie

  27. Adrien le Roy:
  28. Bransle de Bourgogne

  29. Anon., 15th c.:
  30. Or vous trémoussez, pasteurs de Judée

  31. Anon., ca 1500:
  32. Et d'où venez-vous, Madame Lucette

  33. Claude Gervaise:
  34. Bransle de Bourgogne
    Bransle double

  35. Laurent Roux (text) / Claudin de Sermisy (music):
  36. Disons nau a pleine teste

  37. Tilman Susato:
  38. Ronde et Saltarello

  39. Nicolas Martin:
  40. Nouvelles, nouvelles

  41. Jehan Bonfon (text) / Passereau (music):
  42. Prè Bethléem dans une éstable

  43. Anon., ca 1600 (text) / Claudin de Sermisy (music):
  44. Sur le mont de Sion

  45. Pierre Certon: Messe "Sur le pont d'Avignon"
  46. Dona nobis pacem

  47. Anon., Avignon, 16th c.:
  48. O l'heureuse journée

  49. Claude Gervaise:
  50. Bransle de Champagne

  51. Nicolas Martin:
  52. Venez ouyr la trompette

  53. Claude Gervaise:
  54. Bransle de Champagne

Playing time: 62' 47"

Performers: The Boston Camerata:
Anne Azéma (soprano), Ellen Hargis (soprano), Laurie Monahan (mezzo-soprano), Michael Collver (counter-tenor), John Fleagle (tenor, hurdy-gurdy), William Hite (tenor), Herman Hildebrand (baritone), Joël Cohen (baritone, lute, percussion), Nicholas Issherwood (bass), Jesse Lepkoff (flutes, recorders), Dan Stillman (sackbut, shawm, recorders), Carol Lewis (vielle, tenor viol), Alice Robbins (vielle, bass viol)
The Boston Shawm and Sackbut Ensemble
Douglas Kirk (cornet, shawm), Dan Stillman (shawm, sackbut), William Ramsey (sackbut), Stephen Lundahl (sackbut)
Joël Cohen, dir.

Recording site and date:
Emmanuel Church, Boston, Massachusset, USA [01/1989]

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 355-221 (december 1989)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (#-p.): 14/4-465 (march/april 1991)

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