L'Arbre de Jessé

L'Arbre de Jessé
Gregorian chant and medieval polyphony
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Glossa 32302

Contents:

  1. Antiphon: Vox in Rama
  2. Canticle: Benedictus es
  3. Tract: Cantemus Domino
  4. Benedicamus trope à 2: Submersus jacet Pharao
  5. Motet à 3: Balaam inquit
  6. Alleluia: Alleluia In exitu Israel
  7. Offertory: Vir erat
  8. Motet à 2: Salve mater
  9. Antiphon: Peccavimus
  10. Lesson & canticle: Lectio Jonæ prophetæ cum cantico
  11. Rondeau: Qui pro nobis
  12. Sequence à 2: Rex Salomon
  13. Lesson: Sequencia sancti evangelii secundum Lucam
  14. Benedicamus trope à 2: Stirps Jesse florigeram

Sources:
[1] Graduel de Gaillac, Paris BnF, Lat. 776, 11th century / Einseideln Stiftsbibliothek 121, 10 th century / Tropaire de Moissac, Paris BnF, Nal. 1873, 11th century (transc.: Marie-Noël Colette).
[2] Graduel de Gaillac, Paris BnF, Lat. 776, 11th century / Laon, Bibl. municipale, 239, 9th-10th centuries.
[3], [6] Graduel de Gaillac, Paris BnF, Lat. 776, 11th century / St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 359, 10th century.
[4] Cividale, Museo Arch. Naz., LXVI, 13-14th centuries
[5] Montpellier, Bibl. Inter-Universitaire, H. 196, 13th-14th centuries
[7] Graduel de St Yrieix, Paris, BnF. Lat. 903, 11th century / Laon, Bibl. municipale, 239, 9th-10th centuries.
[8] École Notre-Dame de Paris / Firenze, Bibl. Mediceo-Laurenziana, Pluteo 29.1, 13th century
[9] Graduale de Benevento, Benevento, Bibl. Cap. 34, 13th century (transc.: Marie-Noël Colette).
[10] Graduale de Benevento, Benevento, Bibl. Cap. 33, 11th century (transc.: Marie-Noël Colette).
[11] École Notre-Dame de Paris / Firenze, Bibl. Mediceo-Laurenziana, Pluteo 29.1, 13th century (arr.: Dominique Vellard)
[12] École de St. Martial de Limoges, Paris BnF. Lat. 3549/3719, 12th century (transc.: Wulf Arlt)
[13] Le Puy, Grand Séminaire, 16th century
[14] École de St. Martial de Limoges, Paris BnF. Lat. 1139, 12th century (transc.: Wulf Arlt)

Performers: Anne Delafosse (soprano), Anne-Marie Lablaude (soprano), Gerd Türk (tenor), Dominique Vellard (tenor), Josep Cabré (baritone)

Playing time: 69'

Recording date: June & July 2008 (Église de Mont-Saint-Vincent)

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 567-114 (March 2009)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 33/1- (Sep./Oct. 2009)

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Todd M. McComb