Carmina Burana - A Passion Play

Carmina Burana
Le Grand Mystère de la Passion
Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi HMC 40 1323 / 24 [Cass. x2] Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1323 / 24 [CDx2] Harmonia Mundi HMA 190 1323 / 24 [CDx2]

Contents:

    CD 1

  1. Hymne Vexilla regis
  2. Antiphone Cum appropinquaret Dominus Jerosolymam
  3. Antiphone Cum audisset populus
  4. Hymne Gloria laus
  5. Marie-Madeleine Mundi delectatio
  6. Intervention du marchand Michi confer, venditor
  7. Deuxière intervention de l'ange O Maria Magdalena
  8. Intervention de l'amant Wol dan, minnekliche chint
  9. Deuxième intervention de l'ange O Maria Magdalena
  10. Courtisane Mundi delectatio
  11. Troisième intervention de l'ange O Maria Magdalena
  12. Remords de Marie-Madeleine Heu, vita preterita
  13. Quatrième intervention de l'ange O Maria Magdalena
  14. Renoncement de Marie-Magdeleine Hinc, ornatus seculi
  15. Chantres: Repons Accessit ad pedes Iesu
  16. Prière de Marie-Magdeleine Iesus troest der sele min
  17. Jésus: Absolution de Marie-Magdeleine Fides tua salvum te fecit
  18. Lamentation de Marie-Magdeleine sur ses péchés Awe, awe
  19. Procession d'enterrement: Antiphone Ego sum resurrectio
  20. Résurrection de Lazarre
  21. Profession de Lazarre: Repons Si ambulem in medio umbre mortis
  22. Judas O pontifices, o viri magni consilii
  23. Repons Ingrediente Domino
  24. Introït Domine, ne longe facias
  25. Graduel Tenuisti manum dexteram meam

    CD 2

  1. Trait Deus, Deus meus
  2. Jésus au Mont des Oliviers
  3. Arrestaion de Jésus
  4. Prière des saintes femmes: Repons Angelis suis
  5. Reniement de Pierre Comprehendentes autem eum
  6. Conseil des grands-prêtres Collegerunt pontifices
  7. Repons Astiterunt reges terrae
  8. Jésus devant Pilate et Hérodes
  9. Repons Astiterunt reges terrae
  10. Jésus devant Pilate
  11. Repons Omnes amici mei
  12. Dernier dialogue entre Pilate et Jésus
  13. Repentir de Judas Penitet me graviter
  14. Lamentation des femmes de Jérusalem pendant le chemin de croix
  15. Crucifixion
  16. Lamentation des Marie Awe, awe
  17. Flete fideles
  18. Marie Planctus ante nescia
  19. Jean et dernières paroles du Christ
  20. Hymne Crux fidelis

Ensemble Organum

Laurence Brisset, Cyrille Gerstenhaber, Florence Limon, Astrid maugard, Pasquale Mourey, Pascale Poulard, Josep Benet, Bruno Boterf, Malcolm Bothwell, Josep Cabré, Philippe Cantor, François Fauché, Samuel Husser, Marcel Pérès, Antoine Sicot, Dominique Visse

Marcel Pérès, dir.

Playing time: 71', 78'

Recording site and date:
Abbaye d'Ambronay, France [11/1989]
Rel. 1990 (HMC), 1999 (HMA)

Excerpts:
[13] Harmonia mundi "Passerelles" HMB 590 017 / 18 [CDx2 + book] Les Contre-ténors - Mythes et Réalités (with a book by Peter Giles)

Nathan Wilkes

This set consists of an independent section of the Carmina Burana manuscript, a grand Passion Play. This is the largest single block of the manuscript, and also one of the few sections which is original rather than contrafactum based on compositions from elsewhere. In some ways, it seems to have an independent existence and to have been included as an appendix, although it does not survive elsewhere.

It the larger of the two passions at the end of the Carmina Burana manuscript, and is sung in Latin and Low German.

Other dramatic cycles from Ensemble Organum:

Le Jeu des Pèlerins D'Emmaüs
Drame liturgique du XIIe siècle
Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi 901347
Laudario di Cortona
Un mystère du XIIIe siècle
Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi 901582

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