Philippe de Vitry: Motets

Douce playsence
Philippe de Vitry: Motets
Ensemble Arborescence - David Chappuis
Evidence Classics 149 [CD]

Contents:

    Invocation

  1. Adesto (Chappuis)
  2. Decens (Chappuis)

    3. Première partie - Prélude

  3. Rex quem metrorum

    4. La fleur de l'âge - Le Roman de Fauvel

  4. Adesto sancta Trinitas
  5. Quoniam secta latronum
  6. Orbis (Chappuis)
  7. Vos pastores

    8. Intermède

  8. Douce playsence (poem)

    9. Deuxième partie - Prélude

  9. Gratissima

    10. L'âge mûr - Le Codex Ivrea

  10. In arboris
  11. Hugo princeps
  12. Douce playsence (Chappuis)
  13. Garison

    14. L'apogée - Le motet monumental

  14. Lugentium

Performers: Marthe Davost, Eugénie De Mey, Maud Haering, Lionel Desmeules, Benjamin Ingrao, Mauricio Montufar (voices); Olivier Bettens (declamation)

Playing time: 56'

Recording date: March 2024 (Royaumont); released: 2025

Some tracks involve setting surviving De Vitry texts to music, as composed by David Chappuis, as noted above. (These are not motets.)

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Todd M. McComb