La Fête de l'Âne

La Fête de l'Âne - Traditions du Moyen-Age
Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic, dir.
Harmonia mundi HM 1036 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HM 40 1036 [Cassette]
Harmonia mundi HMC 90 1036 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi "Suite" HMT 7901036 [CD]

Contents:

    Anon.: La Fête de l'Âne:

    Introitus

  1. Hac in anni janua
    Lux hodie
  2. Orientis partibus Hec est clara dies
    Verbum patris
    Exultet hec concio

    3. Cérémonie de remise de la crosse au maître de la fête

  3. Ave Virgo spetiosa
  4. Deposuit potentes
    Gregis pastor
  5. En mai

    6. La messe des ânes et des buveurs

  6. Kyrie Asini
    Litanie
  7. Sequentia vini: Graduale Bacchi
    Vinum bonum

    8. ----
  8. Curritur ad vocem
  9. Dialogus
    Veritas, equitas
  10. Lux optata claruit
  11. Kalendas Ianuarias
  12. Orientis partibus II
  13. Oratio
  14. Novus annus
    Hunc diem
    Ite missa est
    Orientis partibus II

    15. Procession

  15. Buccinate
    Habemus episcopum
    Lux omni festa
  16. Jolivete
  17. Cavalcade
  18. Omnia tempus habent

Source: Adapted from "Officium Circumsionis" - London, Brit. Museum, Egerton 2615 & other sources not precisely stated.

Playing time: 19' 37" + 27' 50" = 46' 27" (LP) or 47' 07" (CD)

Performers:
Clemencic Consort [Sergio Vartolo (counter-tenor), Mieczyslaw Antoniak (counter-tenor, tenor), Andrew Schultze (baritone), René Zosso (chant, hurdy-gurdy), Mikis Michaelides (vielle, rebab), Frantisek Pok (cornett, tromba marina, bagpipe), Andràs Kéckès (lute, qobus), Esmail Vasseghi (drum, tympanon), Anne Osnowycz (spinet of Vosges) - René Clemencic, dir.

Recording site and date:
Unknown [09/1979];
Rel.: 1980 (LP), 1981 (HM 40), 1985 (HMC 190), 1998 (HMT 790)

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 256-81 (dec. 1980 (as HM 1306))
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 4-4/225 (march/april 1981 (as HM 1306)), 11/1-365 (sept./oct. 1987 (as HMC 90 1306))

A couple of other recordings devoted to this production:

The Feast of Fools
The New London Consort - Philip Pickett, dir.
L'Oiseau Lyre 433 194
La Fete des Fous
Obsidienne - Emmanuel Bonnardot
Calliope 9344

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Pierre-F. Roberge