Chants de Rome

Messe de Saint Marcel

Chants de L'Église de Rome (VIIe & XIIIe siècles)
Ensemble Organum – Marcel Pérès, dir.
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901382 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi HMC 401382 [Cass.]
Harmonia Mundi "Suite" HMT 7901382 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi "musique d'abord" HMA 1951382 [CD]

Contents:

Adoratio crucis
Feria Sexta in Passione Domini

1. Tract: Domine audivi auditum tuum
2. Tract: Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi
3. Improperia: Agios o Theos, Sanctus Deus

Messe de Saint Marcel

4. Introit: Statuit ei Dominus
5. Gradual: Inveni David servum meum
   Verse: Nichil proficiet
6. Alleluia verse: V. Disposui Testamentum
   Alleluia verse: V. Inveni David
7. Offertory: Veritas mea
   Verse: Posui adiutorium
   Verse: Misericordia mea
8. Communion: Domine quinque talenta tradidisti michi

Sources:
Bibl. Vat., ms Lat. 5319
Bibl. Vat., Arch. S. Pietro, F. 22
Cologny, Bibl. Bodmeriana, Codex 74

Performers:
Ensemble Organum
Lycourgos Angelopoulos, Josep Benet, Malcolm Bothwell, Josep Cabré, Marcel Pérès, Michel Gauvain, Christian Barrier, Frédéric Richard (bass), Antoine Sicot (deep bass) Marcel Pérès, dir.

Playing time: 78' 38"

Recording site and date:
Grand Réfectoire de l'Abbaye de Fontevraud [06/1991];
Rel.: 1992 (HMC), 1999 (HMX), 2005 (HMA)

Reviewed in:
CD Compact: (Feb. 1992)
Diapason (#-p.): (Apr, 1992)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 15/6- (July / August 1992)

Comments:
Information from CD; minor additions by Pierre-F. Roberge

Comment from Sergey Lebedev: The current reconstruction of Old Roman chant is based on three well-known plainchant mss. (I-Rvat lat. 5319, I-Rvat Arch. S.Pietro F.22, Ch-Cologny, Bibl.Bodmeriana, cod.74) dated from the 11th and 13th centuries.

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