Le Graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne

Le Graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne - The Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany

Plain-chant et polyphonies des XIII^e & XIV^e siècles – Plain-chant and polyphony from the 13th & 14th centuries
Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi HMC 401403 [Cassette]
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901403 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi "L'édition du quarantième anniversaire: 1958-1998" HMD 901403 [CD]

Contents:

Graduel – Gradual

1. Sequence: Natus est hodie Dominus
   
2. Kyrie: Orbis factor
   
3. Gloria in excelsis Deo
   
4. Alleluia verse: Per te Dei genitrix
   
5. Alleluia verse: Nigra sum sed formosa
   
6. Alleluia verse: Post partum
   
7. Sequence: Verbum bonum
   
8. Troped Epistle in french: Saint Paul to Titus
   
9. Credo in unum deum
   
10. Cantus: Hodie donum datur gracie (chant)
    
11. Communion: Viderunt omnes fines terre
    
12. Cantus: Virga lesse floruit (chant)
    
13. Benedicamus Domino (troped)
    
14. Sequence: Res est admirabilis

Source:
Ms. 2 (17), Bibl. Municipale de Limoges

Performers:
Ensemble Organum
Laurence Brisset, Gilberte Casabianca, Nicole Casalonga, Anne Duperray, Valérie Gabriel, Marie-France Leclerc, Pascale Poulard, Malcolm Bothwell, Marcel Pérès
Marcel Pérès, dir.

Playing time: 61' 27"

Recording site and date:
Grand Réfectoire de L'Abbaye de Fontevraud [11/1991];
Rel.: 1993 (HMC), 1998 (HMD)

Excerpts:
[2], [9], [14] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 649 [CD] Les Très Riches Heures du Moyen Âge - A Medieval Journey CD-4 - Les Premières polyphonies
[2] Harmonia Mundi "Century" HMX 290 8167 [CD] A History of Music, vol. 5: La naissance de la Polyphonie / The Birth of Polyphony

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 392-170 (apr. 1993)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):16/6-289 (jul./aug. 1993)
Monde de la Musique: 165/14
Télérama: (15-21 may 1993)

Comments:
Information from CD.
Further remarks from Sergey Lebedev:
Only 2 sequences (Res est admirabilis & Verbum bonum) and 1 Credo are notated for 2 voices in the Ms. source. Other tracks have been interpreted by a performance editor (i.e. Pérès) as instances of "oral polyphony" & therefore additional voices appear.

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