Secret Voices – Las Huelgas Codex

Secret Voices

Chant & Polyphony from the Las Huelgas Codex, c. 1300
Anonymous 4
Harmonia Mundi USA HMU 807510

Contents:

First Light

1. Virgines egregie
2. Ave maris stella
3. Motet: Claustrum pudicicie / Virgo viget / Flos filius

Morning

4. Fa fa mi / Ut re mi
5. O Maria virgo / O Maria maris stella / [In veritate]
6. Benedicamus domino: Cum cantico

Mass

7. Salve porta / Salve salus / Salve sancta parens
8. Kirie: Rex virginum amator
9. Gloria: Spiritus et alme
10. Verbum bonum et suave
11. Salve virgo regia / Ave glorisa mater / [Domino]
12. Sanctus & Benedictus
13. Gaude virgo nobilis / Verbum caro factum / Et Veritate
14. Agnus dei: Gloriosa spes reorum
15. O monialis conscio
16. Benedicamus domino: Bellal vocatur

Evening

17. In virguito gracie
18. Ave regina celorum / Alma redemptoris mater / [Alma]
19. Benedicamus domino à 3 (rondellus)

Night

20. Si vocatus ad nupcias
21. Mater patris et filia
22. Benedicamus domino à 2
23. Omnium in te christe

Sources:
[3], [6]-[7], [16], [18], [22] Plainchant incipit or respond derived from a polyphonic line in the work itself
[9], [12], [14] Madrid, Bibl. Nac. Musica 1361
[8] Plainchant portions: Paris, Bibl. Nat. Latin 1112
[1]-[2], [4]-[5], [10]-[11], [13], [15], [17], [19]-[21], [23] Transcription from Burgos, Archivo del Monasterio de Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Códice IX

Performers:
Anonymous 4
Ruth Cunningham (voice), Marsha Genensky (voice), Susan Hellauer (voice), Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek (voice)

Playing time: 58' 27"

Recording site and date:
Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College, Indiana, USA [11/2009] & Skywalker Sound, Marin County, California, USA [04/2011];
Rel.: 2011

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 35/4-551 (March / April 2012)
Diapason (#-p.): 597-107 (December 2011)

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